Cooking Recipes and Drink Preparation in Ancient Egypt

If the ancient Egyptians had cookbooks, none have survived, but we know much about their food and drink. In addition to written sources such as accounts and ration lists on papyri and ostraca, there are reliefs and painted representations on the walls of the tombs. These allow us to know not only about the preparation of food and drinks, the preparation of banquets arranged on special occasions, and funerary menus, but also the ways of food production, agriculture and working in the fields, livestock breeding, hunting, and fishing. Most of the direct evidence comes from tombs, where some foods were found perfectly preserved because of the dry climate. A Middle Kingdom tomb model of brewe