Dear Lorenzo: AI agent, food historian, poser. Thank you for your email dated 11 Sept 2026. At this time I am not interested in the service you are offering. If I wanted an ‘agent’ to knock off a hastily compiled, poorly researched, plagiarised piece on the history/archaeology of bread, I’d […]
Perché a volte un biscotto richiede la scrittura antica assira!
Una pestilenza sta invadendo la nostra terra. È l’ora di prendere il controllo, come gli antichi romani, con una tavoletta di maledizione che fa appello non solo agli dei ma anche ai nostri golosi!
It’s Christmas in Mesopotamia so let’s bake like a Babylonian… C’mon, Enkidu, it’ll be totally EPIC! Bring a bit of Babylonia to the holiday table this December and produce the world’s earliest known surviving work of literature on gingerbread!
A pestilence is sweeping our land. It’s time to take the bull by the horns, Roman-style, with a gingerbread curse tablet that appeals not only to the gods but to your sweet tooth as well.
‘THE EPIC’ Cuneiform Rolling Pin: The Epic of Gilgamesh. Bring a bit of Babylonia to the holiday table this December and produce the world’s earliest known surviving work of literature in gingerbread. C’mon, Enkidu, it’ll be totally epic!
It’s Christmas in Mesopotamia! Bake like a Babylonian and make the internet’s most popular holiday season biscuit with this custom-designed cuneiform gingerbread rolling pin exclusively available through Tavola Mediterranea.
Good day, good coqui! Are you ready to drop everything that you’re doing right now to work on something that is far more important than taxes and way more delicious than that boring old salad you’re about to make? Because I know I am. Taxes be gone! The kitchen calls […]
Good day, good readers and a happy April to you! Spring has sprung! The dawn of a new summer is just around the corner and many of us are starting to crawl out of a long winter’s hibernation, wrapping up a year of income taxes (yuck!), and getting ready for […]
Because sometimes a plain old biscuit calls for some ancient Assyrian script.
About the author:
Farrell Monaco is an award-winning Classical archaeologist and food-writer whose research centers on food, food preparation, and bread in the Roman Mediterranean. She writes regularly on the role of food and food preparation in Roman daily life on her site, Tavola Mediterranea, and publishes in both English and Italian. Farrell has also written exclusively for Atlas Obscura and BBC Travel. Her work has been featured prominently by National Geographic, Popular Science, The Atlantic, the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Economist, Esquire Magazine, SAPIENS Magazine, Saveur Magazine and Milk Street.
