cooking – The Boat Children (Out of Egypt)

A Daily Kitchen Schedule

April 15, 2023

The background calculations for this post comes from The Rhythms of Bread. In my New Kingdom Egyptian village kitchen, for…

March 28, 2023

The bread of Ancient Egypt isn’t easy to figure out. Though there are models and illustrations of bakeries from that…

March 21, 2023

Ovens and stoves. The heart (and hearth) of any kitchen, ancient or modern. Ovens were small and brick or clay…

February 7, 2023

I talk about cooking in How to Eat in Pharaoh Days, but this post is about the fuel. No electricity,…

January 11, 2022

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?”…

November 2, 2021

Breadmaking is a pretty straightforward thing to learn. There are countless books, classes, blogs, articles, and friends and family eager…

November 1, 2021

Once you have dehulled grain, the next step is to grind it. In Ancient Egypt, this would be done by…

August 11, 2019

My Hebrew characters in Egypt have porridge for breakfast every day. Why? Because it feels like the right sort of…

August 11, 2019

And how much flour did it take to make it? Bread is the staple food of the Ancient Egyptians and…