Footnote 1 – The Oldest Cookbooks in the World

Rabbinic exegesis was more exercised about the anomaly of the three divine messengers having to eat (or consenting to eat) than about the mingling of milk and meat in apparent violation of the (later) dietary laws. See W. Gunther Plaut, The Torah: A Modern Commentary (New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregation, 1981), p. 122.