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How the Cavemen Ate: Cookbook Reveals 77 Recipes Stretching Right Back to the Stone Age
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 4 May 2012 | Eddie Wrenn

Posted on 05/12/2012 11:02:10 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

How the cavemen ate: Cookbook reveals 77 recipes stretching right back to the Stone Age (and they taste surprisingly good!)

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Fancy something new for dinner tonight? Well if you don't fancy a Chinese or a Thai, researchers have pulled together 77 recipes which were eaten during the Stone Ages.

And the surprise is how delicious the recipes, some of them 16,000 years old, sound - with your typical Neolithic families spicing up their meals and using plenty of fresh fruit and herbs along with the simmering main dishes of game.

A Culinary Journey Through Time can join Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay on the bookshelves of adventurous cooks, with recipes such as pepper sausage with pine nuts, spicy bread containing goat cheese, bay leaves and aniseed, and cucumber layered with mint and vinegar. The recipes are organised by season, and combine menus from the Stone Age, the days of the Romans, and recipes from the Vikings and Middle Age chefs.

While many recipes are labour-intensive, and require obscure ingredients like 'liquamen' - a preservative made from salt, fish, oregano and apple juice - they can provide a challenge for those who can stomach it. The menus were compiled bu three Danish archaeologists, based on evidence such as cookware, art depicting meal-times, and analysis of bones and plan material found in cooking pots from the eras.

Reporter Sara Reardon, writing for New Scientist, gave some of the recipes a go, and gave them the Stone Age version of the thumbs-up.

She enjoyed the experience, despite some reservations, such as: 'Never before have I seen a recipe that called for an entire cup of salt, but I’m fairly certain that the bottle of liquamen in my fridge will never spoil.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; History; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: archaeology; bonappetit; campfire; caveman; cavemancookbook; cookbook; fish; godsgravesglyphs; liquamen; neolithic; oregano; recipes; salt; stoneage
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1 posted on 05/12/2012 11:02:24 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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More reference at:

How to cook like a caveman

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/05/how-to-cook-like-a-caveman.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news


2 posted on 05/12/2012 11:03:36 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

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4 posted on 05/12/2012 11:14:42 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: DogByte6RER
I thought they ate roast duck with mango salsa.
5 posted on 05/12/2012 11:16:55 AM PDT by Maceman
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Foiled. Wanted to post image of that giant egg in the movie Caveman, but cold not find one


6 posted on 05/12/2012 11:20:11 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: DogByte6RER
Now, I can't positively say what was going through my adolescent mind back when I was watching the Flintstones, but that is pretty damned close!
7 posted on 05/12/2012 11:24:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DogByte6RER

Got Dog?


9 posted on 05/12/2012 11:56:43 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: BerryDingle

10 posted on 05/12/2012 11:57:59 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DogByte6RER
You mean they didn't have WENDY's back then???

Cooking so easy a CAVEMAN could do it!!

11 posted on 05/12/2012 1:01:58 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: ExCTCitizen

“To Serve Man”

It’s a cook book!!!!


12 posted on 05/12/2012 1:32:55 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Would you rather eat dog food or cat food? Guess it's Romney 2012.)
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To: DogByte6RER; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks DogByte6RER.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


13 posted on 05/13/2012 4:02:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: DogByte6RER; SunkenCiv
The Middle Ages roast chicken stuffed with garlic and shallots in red wine sauce sounds yummy.

Wench, more mead!

14 posted on 05/14/2012 2:26:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: DogByte6RER

"Maybe next time you should do a little research"

15 posted on 05/14/2012 2:28:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: colorado tanker

:’D


16 posted on 05/14/2012 4:23:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body Metabolic Man: Ten Thousand Years from Eden: The Long Search for a Personal Nutrition From our Forest Origins to the Supermarkets of Today Health Secrets of the Stone Age, Second Edition
The Paleo Diet:
Lose Weight and Get
Healthy by Eating the Food
You Were Designed to Eat

by Loren Cordain
NeanderThin:
Eat Like a Caveman
to Achieve a Lean,
Strong, Healthy Body

by Raymond V. Audette
with Troy Gilchrist
foreword by Michael R. Eades
Metabolic Man:
Ten Thousand Years from Eden:
The Long Search for a
Personal Nutrition From
our Forest Origins to the
Supermarkets of Today

by Charles Heizer Wharton
Health Secrets of
the Stone Age
Second Edition

by Philip J. Goscienski


17 posted on 05/14/2012 4:24:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

ah, the paleo diets.

Too bad that the “average” person back then only lived for 35 years....


18 posted on 05/15/2012 10:16:05 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc

We’re at the top of the food chain now, not so much then. :’)


19 posted on 05/16/2012 2:25:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

in local libraries
Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

20 posted on 05/19/2012 7:30:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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