Finally, authentic historical recipes designed for classroom use! Turn children’s love of food into a love of world history. Cooking Up Some World History provides authentic recipes in historical contexts, adding flavor to learning.
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Cooking Up Some World History
Combine cooking and eating with new information and you have the perfect recipe for retention. A lesson about Ancient Egypt is a lot more memorable if you do it while nibbling on some authentic Basboosa! (That’s bread sweetened with honey and lemon. Yum!)
Recipes are historically accurate. There is a nice mix of snack foods, entrees, and even historically accurate deserts. Want to sample the same soup that the Aztecs enjoyed? Or eat—literally—like a king? (Louis XIV, that is!) The recipes are right here!
Cooking Up Some World History includes a rich assortment of recipes in the following categories:
Prehistory • First Civilizations • Ancient India • Ancient China • Classical Greece • Ancient Rome • Maya • Aztec • Inca • Middle Ages • The Muslim World • Renaissance • The Age of Exploration • Kings and Tsars • Industrial Revolution • Nineteenth Century • Communist World • World Wars and the Great Depression • The Modern World
My Review of Cooking Up Some World History
This book is great. It gives you tons of ideas to incorporate cooking with learning about the history of the world. It is meant to use with grades K-6, but I think that you could use it with older students as well as an added activity and to make learning more fun.
This book is perfect for homeschooling parents and teachers who have access to kitchens at their schools. If you love making learning more hands-on, then this is a book you need to add to your curriculum! One of my favorite times to study is the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, there was a great divide between the wealthy and the poor. That divide meant that only the wealthy had access to certain foods. The wealthy had elaborate feasts with massive amounts of food while the poor usually subsisted on bread and cheese and whatever else they could find.
As grain was the main source of food, this recipe was probably a staple. It is called frumenty, or bread on bread. It basically consisted of cooked bulgur wheat served on trenchers which were thick, stale slices of bread.
Doesn’t sound like a very well-rounded diet, does it? Maybe that’s why they had scurvy all the time!
Thank you, Christy! We love cooking with our kids and are happy that you enjoyed our book! 🙂
I don’t homeschool my kids but they would love this book! All of my kids love to cook and try new recipes and a couple of them and they also love to learn about other cultures. What a great concept for a book.
This sounds like a great way to incorporate history into a fun activity! Wish they had done this in Home Ec (do they still have that course?) way back when!
I don’t homeschool my kids but this sounds like a good book for us to learn how to cook.
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