Description
Cooking across the Ages is a course on the evolution of food, taste, and culture from ancient civilizations to the modern era, published by The Great Courses Plus online academy. Cooking Across the Ages is a fascinating journey through culinary history that explores how food, taste, and culture have evolved from ancient civilizations to the modern era. The course connects the art of cooking with anthropology, showing how ingredients, techniques, and traditions have shaped human societies and daily lives over the centuries.
This course explores how people cooked and ate throughout history—from the rustic feasts of ancient Rome and Egypt to the lavish feasts of the Renaissance and the rise of industrial cuisine. Students will discover how trade routes, agriculture, religion, and technology influenced what people ate and how they prepared their meals. It also highlights the evolution of cooking tools, preservation methods, and regional flavor profiles that define today’s global cuisine. With a blend of historical insight and practical recipes, this course brings the past to life, helping individuals understand how culinary traditions have connected humanity across time and how ancient practices still inspire modern kitchens.
What you will learn in Cooking across the Ages:
- Understanding Culture Through Cooking
- Ancient Rome: Cooking with Apicius
- Medieval Egypt: Chickpeas and Phyllo Dough
- Celebrate Like a Viking with Meat and Beer
- Medieval France’s Reach for Sugar and Spices
- Renaissance Italian Pastries and Pasta
- Renaissance Aphrodisiacs
- Popish Rome: Meat and Eggplant Rolls
- And…
Course specifications
Publisher: The Great Courses Plus
Instructors: Ken Albala
Language: English
Level: Introductory to Advanced
Number of Lessons: 24
Duration: 13 hours and 19 minutes
Course topics
Cooking across the Ages Prerequisites
None
Pictures
Cooking across the Ages introduction video
Installation guide
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Subtitle: None
Quality: 720p
Downloadly link
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Size
11.4 GB
