Ancient History Cookbook - Paperback

by Meredith Curtis (Author)

Learn History the Fun Way-in Your Kitchen! If you want to teach history the fun way, include cooking and baking to explore the time period, geographical area, and people you are studying. In our house, we love to cook and bake to learn history. We time travel right in the kitchen.

Here is our Ancient History Cookbook. We used it in our home and in our world history homeschool co-op. Everyone loved it! We would take turns making lunch based on the time period we were studying. From Eve's Apple & Walnut Salad in the Garden of Eden to Ancient Egypt's Leek and Onion Soup, we cooked and baked our way through time.

Here are some of the recipes we enjoy. You can make them in your kitchen and travel back in time. There are over 60 recipes in this cookbook including:
-Ice Age Slushies
-Esau's Birthright Lentil Stew
-Ruth's Barley Squares
-Ezekiel Bread
-Pythagoras' Cinnamon Right Triangles
-Marathon Honey Puffs
-Han Chinese Pepper Steak
-Sea of Galilee Tilapia

Each section starts out with information on the time period or civilization in that section. Updated recipes, based on older recipes or food enjoyed at the time, follow.

The resource section follows the recipes and includes living books, textbook readings, teaching audios, and movies you can watch. Menu suggestions are included too. At the end of the book, you get our world history co-op lesson plans.

Here are the sections in this cookbook:
-Time Began in a Garden
-It Began to Rain
-Early Civilizations
-Egypt & Israel
-Israel, Assyrians, & Babylonians
-Ancient China & India
-Persians & Medes
-Greek City-States
-Roman Empire & Israel's Messiah

History is a favorite subject at the Curtis house and when we added cooking and baking to learning about "the olden days," It just made everything more fun. When I talked about cutting the historical meals out of co-op one year, my son said, "Mom, you can't do that. The food is my favorite part! Cooking, baking, and EATING are the best part of learning history!"

Author Biography

Meredith Curtis, pastor's wife and homeschooling mom of five amazing children, has been married to her college sweetheart for 30 years. She loves Jesus, leads worship, homeschools, writes, leads a homeschool co-op, mentors ladies, and, sometimes, even cooks dinner! Meredith wants to encourage homeschooling families to be joyful and successful in their homeschool adventures, all the way to high school graduation! Meredith is the founder of Finish Well, a homeschooling conference for families embarking on the high school adventure. She is the host of Finish Well Radio on the Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network. She is the author of Joyful and Successful Homeschooling, Unlocking the Mysteries of Homeschooling High School (with Laura Nolette), Jesus Fill my Heart and Home, God's Girls Beauty Secrets, and American Literature and Research. She enjoys speaking about homeschooling and Christian living at homeschool conferences, retreats, and other events. She and her friend, Laura Nolette started Powerline Productions, a company whose mission is to equip Christians to be world changers and raise world changers through books, Bible studies, courses, unit studies, cookbooks, and audios.