BAR Test Kitchen: Ancient Syrian Date Pastries

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There’s no denying that I have a sweet tooth. Whether I am at home or abroad, I am always in search of desserts. From croissants to baklava, I’ve sampled many delicious dishes—but never before one from Bronze Age Syria.

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Footnotes

1. Adam Maskevich, “A Mesopotamian Feast,” Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2006.

Endnotes

1.
Jean Bottéro, The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004), p. 23.

2.
Bottéro, Oldest Cuisine, p. 23; text from Madeleine Lurton Burke, Archives royales de Mari: Textes administratifs de la salle 111 du Palais (Paris: Geuthner, 1963), no. 13.