𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚂𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛 📘 (@lostsupper) / X

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Author Taras Grescoe's (Bottomfeeder, Devil's Picnic) quest for ancient flavors. Words @SmithsonianMag @NatGeo @guardian Option: @veltre lostsupper.blog

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Apr 27, 2024
The reviews are in, and the reviews are good! My latest book: The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past I'm imagining it as a doc series. (@veltre for option) Here's a round-up of what the critics are saying: taras-grescoe.com/the-lost-suppe…
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Feb 9, 2024
We succeeded in recreating Neolithic flatbread! This is about as close as I can figure out how to make bread as it would have been baked in one of the first daily bread-making cultures, ca. 9,000 years ago. I’ll let you judge the authenticity…but the taste is fantastic. 🍞🧵
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@lostsupper
Nov 1, 2022
We succeeded in recreating a Neolithic flatbread! This is about as close as I can figure out how to make bread as it would have been baked in one of the first daily bread-making cultures, ca. 9,000 years ago. I’ll let you judge the authenticity…but the taste is fantastic.
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@lostsupper
Sep 23, 2022
A year ago I boarded a train in #Istanbul to investigate one scientist's claim of rediscovering Silphion, a legendary herb thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago. It still grows in the heart of #Turkey—and it's delicious. More in my @NatGeo feature: nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…
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@lostsupper
Dec 20, 2023
End of an Era. I went out and bought this, the Dec. 2023 issue of National Geographic. It's the last issue of this venerable institution that will appear on newsstands. 🧵
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@lostsupper
Oct 26, 2021
It's took a long time—4 months of fermentation, in fact—but I made my own garum (or more accurately, liquamen), under the supervision of the world's leading archaeological authority on the subject. (Looking at you, Sally!) Here's how I did it... (thread)
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@lostsupper
Feb 2, 2024
It took 4 months of fermentation, but I made my own garum (or more accurately, liquamen)—the ancient Roman fish sauce To avoid botulism, I did it under the supervision of Sally Grainger, the British author of The Story of Garum. Some of the key steps... 🐟
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@lostsupper
Apr 25, 2024
The Daily Grind. This is how our ancestors ground wheat 8,000 years ago. I'm using emmer here, an ancient grain that was used in Çatalhöyük, in what's now #Turkey. That hollow scraping sound would have been the soundtrack to life in the Neolithic... 🍞🧵
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Feb 15, 2024
This is a big deal! Was writing invented once, or was it invented independently in different places, and at different times? New evidence...✍️🧵
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@lostsupper
Feb 9, 2024
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I should start from the beginning. I went to the Çatalhöyük site in central #Turkey. A proto-urban Neolithic community, pop. as high as 8,000, inhabited for 1000+ years starting ca 7200 BCE.
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@lostsupper
Feb 9, 2024
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First tastes...
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@lostsupper
Feb 9, 2024
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The pores in the basalt were huge, but they quickly filled with flour, providing a smoother surface. Marc found tiny flecks of stone in the first batches of flour, so we threw those out. Ancient Egyptian teeth were worn down by microabrasions, probably for this reason
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@lostsupper
Dec 20, 2023
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The first issue was published in Sept. 1888. My grandparents gave me a year-long subscription when I was 8 years old. It helped open my eyes to a wider world...
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@lostsupper
Feb 9, 2024
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In the excavations, I saw the placement of the beehive-shaped ovens and the storage bins that almost every dwelling had. Helpfully, replica houses showed exactly what these looked like.
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