Simple roast pork skewer with seasoned barley meal, as served to Odysseus by the swineherd Eumaeus

A more drinkable, better-tasting version of the Ancient Greek potion from The Odyssey that I made back in 2020

Slow-cooked beef in a sweet and sour sauce with a depth of flavor that easily makes it one of my top three Ancient Roman dishes

Delicious lamb stew with leeks and mint, thickened with emmer flour

Ancient Egyptian fritters with cardamom and honey

Pork ribs roasted with a simple and delicious honey and blackberry sauce

Hearty, simple soup that’s reminiscent of spinach

Farro and pork cooked with a wine sauce as it might have been eaten by a Roman centurion stationed at Rome’s northernmost fort in Britain

A very drinkable cloudy, flat beer made with honey, pomegranates, and dates

Crispy and tender pork belly marinated in dill seeds, cumin, lovage, asafoetida, and garum with some optional gilding

Simple and delicious lentil soup with leek and ancient herbs

Essentially a spiral-shaped version of globi, this simple two-ingredient batter is fried and topped with honey and poppyseeds

A delicious sweet and savory sauce that I’m using with a roasted duck instead of flamingo

Date and pistachio filling wrapped in pastry, just one of many possible recreations of an ancient Mesopotamian treat

Slightly nutty fresh cheese that’s somewhere between  farmer’s cheese and mozzarella

A complex, savory sauce for poultry made with hazelnuts or almonds

A simple and tasty ancient Roman cheesecake sweetened with honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds

Honey, long pepper, and mushrooms combine for a simple but flavorful dish

Fire-roasted red deer, smoked goat, and einkorn cakes with fiddlehead ferns make up my version of Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal

Dense, flavorful, boiled-then-baked bread recreated from the tomb of Ramses III