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

Dates stuffed with nuts and long pepper, rolled in salt, and cooked in honey

A sweet egg frittata-like dish that has a classic combination of ancient Roman flavors of long pepper, garum, and cumin

Delicious, well-balanced grilled meat with an earthy, herby, smokey flavor, and accompaniments to round out an ancient Greek Olympian’s meal

Cheese-forward and slightly sweet, this puls numbers among the quite tasty ancient dishes

A hearty, complex stew reconstructed from the ingredients and methods that were available to the ancient Celts in Gaul (modern day France).

Pizza in the style of a recently uncovered fresco in Pompeii with moretum, a Roman garlic-herb-cheese spread

A delicious mixture of honey and sesame seeds that was the energy bar of Ancient Greece.