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Coming Soon! Bon Appetit Wednesday! You’ll Love Our “Recipes With a Past”
Is cinnamon your secret ingredient? Made from bark stripped from the laurel tree, it has been in the pantries, larders and spice racks of cooks from China to Rome to Sri Lanka for nearly 5,000 years....
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Ancient Foodie Tee, Tote and Apron Now Featured in The Bazaar
For those foodies out there, AntiquityNOW has some new ways to display your appreciation of the ancients. We are featuring in The Bazaar, our new store that we announced last week, wearables that...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Savory Pre-Columbian Tamales with Black Beans
Did you know that tamales are not simply a delicious Mexican creation, but actually an ancient food staple? Created by the Aztecs using maize, their most important food, tamales were often filled with...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Pork Dumplings for the Year of the Horse
Chinese New Year is right around the corner and we thought we’d serve up a dish full of ancient symbolism. This recipe for pork dumplings is a perfect way to start the New Year with a savory fare...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Butternut Squash Soup With Maple Roasted Chickpeas
As the polar vortex spins and the Arctic blasts march on, much of the world is looking for a warm pair of slippers and a nice hot meal to fight chill. This easy slow-cooker soup is the dish to satisfy...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Sabzi Polo Mahi in Honor of Persian New Year
Last Thursday, March 20th, marked the much anticipated first day of spring. At 12:57 pm ET, the sun crossed the equator and the vernal equinox arrived. Many people cheered as winter met its official...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Ancient Chicken Curry in a Hurry
Curry. It’s a spiced dish with a definition that continues to change and expand as new chefs and even new regions of the world explore its flavorful possibilities. Today, curry is enjoyed in a...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday: The Ancient Noodle
Covered in creamy sauce, swimming in fragrant broth or simply sharing a bowl with some butter, noodles are the quintessential comfort food. Not surprisingly, many want to claim the noodle as their own....
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Almond Brittle with the Ancient Anise
A small and unassuming looking herb, anise (also called aniseed) has been treasured by many different civilizations since antiquity. While it is related to several other well-known herbs such as cumin,...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Easy, No-Bake Cookies with Quinoa, the Incas’ “Mother...
Last week we celebrated ancient amaranth, superfood of the Aztecs. So this week we decided to explore another ancient “grain” that sustained a great civilization. Quinoa was to the Incas what amaranth...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Seaweed for Thanksgiving?
In the past we’ve discussed several ancient superfoods including quinoa, amaranth, honey and even the adzuki bean. Today, we add one more to the list—seaweed, an ancient food from the sea that packs a...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Asparagus with Curry Butter: The Ancient History of...
In the movie Julie & Julia, Paul Child says to his wife, the soon-to-be world-acclaimed chef Julia Child, “You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life.” What more apt way to express...
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2014 Recipes With a Past and the Art of Being Human
AntiquityNOW is pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 Recipes With a Past, a compendium of dishes derived from our weekly Bon Appetit Wednesday! blog posts. Embracing more than 25 countries and...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Celebrate New Year’s With the Bountiful Grape—Here’s...
The sweet, succulent grape. It’s a fruit that has found its way into cultures around the world. Its cultivation goes all the way back to the Neolithic era (6,000-6500 BCE). Over the next centuries its...
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Happy 2015! Here Are Your Free Gifts From AntiquityNOW!
We hope your holidays were joyous and accompanied by good cheer, good company and good food. We wanted to make sure that in the midst of all the holiday celebration you received your free gifts from...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Ancient Nettle Pudding—Britain’s Oldest Recipe
Why would anyone ever want to eat something called a “stinging nettle?” Well, because it’s delicious and nutritious! Our ancient ancestors knew the value of this unhappily named plant and you can still...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! West African Jollof Rice
It’s an explosion of flavors, a mingling of ingredients, that creates a perfect symphony of taste. Jollof rice, or “one pot” in the Jolof language, is thought to be the original dish behind the Cajun...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Ancient Roman Ostrich Ragoût
In our exploration of ancient foods and recipes, we’ve often found that ancient people not only ate extremely healthy foods, they also ate some things that seem very unusual to us today. We’ve learned...
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Bon Appetit Wednesday! Naan: Hot, Bubbly, Soft, Crispy and Ancient
Naan—warm, round, flat, its surface bubbled to perfection. A bread so simple and yet so profoundly scrumptious. The perfect accompaniment to a delicious South Asian meal. Like so many unassuming, but...
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5 Ways to Celebrate an Ancient Valentine’s Day, Courtesy of AntiquityNOW
It’s the most romantic day of the year and you’re not quite sure how to show your one true love that you’ll love him or her for a thousand years…. We have the answer. Give a Valentine’s Day inspired by...
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