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Donnie Dodson
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Donnie Dodson writes Eats History, a personal blog at eatshistory.com about history and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for food history: the comments cite its writing on ancient recipes and classical and Babylonian food, including a piece on the five oldest recipes in the world.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Donnie Dodson researches, travels, cooks, and rates dishes from throughout all of human history, telling the story of the food and the people behind it.
What Hacker News says?
> I am reminded of reading some classicists' attempt to create garum in the kitchen by making some unpleasant horror of mashed fish or something back in the eighties or nineties. No one ever mentioned in those kinds of write-ups back then that they still make fish sauce in Italy. A more modern example might be that recently discovered Babylonian Lamb Stew [0]. Most of the scholarly reconstructions of the stew follow…
Comment linking /the-oldest-recorded-recipe-babylonian-lamb-stew/
on “Classical statues were not painted horribly”Submitted The Original 1965 Gatorade Recipe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile cook books are modern, we do actually find thousand year old recipes [1]. [1] https://eatshistory.com/the-5-oldest-recipes-in-the-world/
Comment linking /the-5-oldest-recipes-in-the-world/
on “Fermented foods shaped human biology”