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Tasting History
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Tasting History is a personal blog at tastinghistory.com about history and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its recipe pages and videos for historical dishes, including a Babylonian lamb stew and the switchel drink. The comments cite them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /recipes/babylonianlambstew2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
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 /recipes/babylonianlambstew
on “Classical statues were not painted horribly”Close to a recipe on Tasting History... https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/babylonianlambstew Our current favorite dinner watching along with Alton Brown.
Comment linking /recipes/babylonianlambstew
on “Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)”Recipe and accompanying video here: https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/switchel Tried making it. Certainly interesting! But not something I’ll make again.
Comment linking /recipes/switchel
on “DIY Soft Drinks”