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Good taste is priceless - and what tastes good even more so.
Precious knowledge straight from the kitchens of history and delicious insights into the most exquisite delights of bygone eras provide the ingredients for this culinary journey through time.
Antiquity`s most famous love aff air, the romance between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, sparked a culinary exchange that continues to shape Mediterranean cuisine to this day. Did the foundations for pizza and pasta emerge from the sands of Egypt? Did olive oil flow from Caesar to Cleopatra or vice versa? Was it cacao extract that Montezuma considered his liquid gold? Or was the yellow tomato his most cherished culinary treasure, like honey for Aristotle, or olive oil for Homer? Could the idea for fish sticks have originated in ancient China, a product of the first Emperor`s fear of an assassination by way of fishbone?
Or did the English carry them back to Europe from the Inuit? What was written down in the world`s oldest recorded recipe? Where and why did potato blossoms once adorn the hair of women, and could this have been the best marketing ploy ever for today`s French fries?
With a pinch of historical flair, this cookbook aims to highlight the culinary individualities and eccentricities of history`s all-time greats as I explore personal tastes ranging from refined to peculiar, the zeitgeist that informed their choices,
their most precious and most delicious treasures, as well as their simplicity or, as it may be, extravagant gluttony.
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About Smilla Cornelia Hebener:
in the course of her career as an international fashion designer and founder of a cooking club, Smilla cooked her way through virtually the whole world. As a costume designer for the German TV documentary series Terra-X, she brought to life over 30,000 years of our planets history - and used the opportunity to delve into meticulous research about the favorite dishes of history`s most interesting characters. She works as a costume and fashion designer as well as in the food industry, splitting her time between
Berlin and Budapest.
