What’s for Dinner? Restaurants Put Manna on the Menu

Judging by the number of results returned in a search on Amazon.com, there is a lot of popular (and scholarly) interest in food from the Bible and the ancient world—whether it’s the scholar who recreated the recipe for an Assyrian stew from an ancient cuneiform tablet (he substituted a can of Guinness where the original called for lamb’s blood) to entire cookbooks devoted to menus for meals mentioned in the Bible (e.g., the dinner Jacob made for his father, Isaac, in order to steal Esau’s blessing, as well as the feast prepared to celebrate the return of the Prodigal […]