Published 13:25 IST, June 30th 2020

Mesopotamian meal cooked by following 'world's oldest recipe' leaves netizens fascinated

Utilising the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, an internet user channelised his inner chef to cook a Mesopotamian meal with ‘world’s oldest recipe’.

Reported by: Aanchal Nigam
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While world is combatting unprecedented outbreak of coronavirus, millions are confined to ir homes to practice social distancing. With so much time to mselves, coronavirus lockdown has triggered unique social media challenges to interesting trends. Utilising same, an internet user channelised his inner chef to cook a Mesopotamian meal with ‘world’s oldest recipe’. According to Bill Surland’s viral social media post, he followed same recipe that was found on a tablet from 1750 BCE. Claiming that those are ‘oldest recipes’, Surland also informed dishes came down to be ‘OK’.

meal included Stew of lamb, Tuh’u, Unwinding and Elamite Broth. Sharing a “wholesome” thre on Twitter with all information regarding dishes, internet users seemed widely fascinated by Surland’s determination of taking up this “orwordly” task. Towards end, internet user also clarified that even though re is a “serious” as well as promising research on meals that were cooked in that era, he did it “just for fun”. To satisfy curiosity of his followers, he also shared book Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of Yale Babylonian Collection from which recipes were taken. 

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‘Delightful’

Surland, whose Twitter description says that he is an ‘acemic’ is being hailed by thousands. viral tweet has alrey garnered nearly 50k likes and 13.6k retweets with people calling it “delightful”. Some Twitter users even recalled to when y tried unique recipes from bygone era out of curiosity and sheer fun. Ors even asked questions such as what’s Babylonian for ‘microwave’ or which of dishes did Surland like most. Several netizens me fun about struggles of reing entire recipe from a tablet and said, “that must be a challenge”. 

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13:25 IST, June 30th 2020