Ancient Recipes With Sohla

Season 1

2021 · 6 episodes

Episodes

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   1. How to Cook Pizza on a Shield Like a 600 BC Persian Soldier

   27 Feb 2021

   Pizza has been around for so long it's impossible to pinpoint its exact origins; Sohla demonstrates how to cook pizza on a shield like a 600 BC Persian soldier.

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   2. Sohla Makes Samurai Mochi

   6 Mar 2021

   Mochi has been a staple Japanese food for thousands of years -- and was once the super food of the samurai; Sohla El-Waylly makes mochi in the same way as the samurai of feudal Japan would have eaten it, along with a daifuku version from the 1700s.

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   3. Sohla's Aztec Taco Tuesday (With Hot Chocolate!)

   13 Mar 2021

   Sohla El-Waylly harnesses flavors to recreate Aztec tlahcos, which would eventually evolve into the tacos people know and love today; Sohla tries out an ancient Aztec recipe for xocolatl -- a precursor to hot chocolate.

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   4. Sohla Recreates Bread and Cheese From Pompeii

   20 Mar 2021

   Bread and cheese is a staple for ancient Romans; Sohla bakes Panis Quadratus, a type of bread that was discovered fossilized in the ruins of Pompeii, along with a cheese made from goat's milk.

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   5. Sohla Cooks a 1,000-Year-Old Hangover Cure

   27 Mar 2021

   Sohla travels back to the Islamic Golden Age of 10th-century Baghdad and recreates Kishkiyya, a 1,000-year-old hangover cure from one of the oldest Arabic cookbooks.

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   6. Sohla Makes an Ancient Chinese Hamburger (Rou Jia Mo From 200 BCE!)

   3 Apr 2021

   Sohla recreates Rou Jia Mo, one of the first versions of a hamburger from ancient China in 200 BCE.