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Ancient Recipes With Sohla

Ancient Recipes with Sohla takes the food you know and love and traces it back to its origins. In each episode, Sohla El-Waylly details the surprising history of some of your favorite dishes as she attempts to recreate the original version using historical cooking techniques and ingredients. Along the way, Sohla highlights the differences between the ancient recipe and how we would prepare the modern version today.

Feb 27, 20213 seasons25 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Seasons

Season 1

6 episodes

Premiered Feb 27, 2021

Season 2

9 episodes

Premiered Jun 5, 2021

Season 3

10 episodes

Premiered Oct 9, 2021

Episodes

1–6 of 6

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Ep 1

How to Cook Pizza on a Shield Like a 600 BC Persian Soldier

Feb 27, 2021

Pizza has been around for so long it's impossible to pinpoint its exact origins; Sohla demonstrates how to cook pizza on a shield like a 600 BC Persian soldier.

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Ep 2

Sohla Makes Samurai Mochi

Mar 6, 2021

Mochi has been a staple Japanese food for thousands of years -- and was once the super food of the samurai; Sohla El-Waylly makes mochi in the same way as the samurai of feudal Japan would have eaten it, along with a daifuku version from the 1700s.

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Ep 3

Sohla's Aztec Taco Tuesday (With Hot Chocolate!)

Mar 13, 2021

Sohla El-Waylly harnesses flavors to recreate Aztec tlahcos, which would eventually evolve into the tacos people know and love today; Sohla tries out an ancient Aztec recipe for xocolatl -- a precursor to hot chocolate.

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Ep 4

Sohla Recreates Bread and Cheese From Pompeii

Mar 20, 2021

Bread and cheese is a staple for ancient Romans; Sohla bakes Panis Quadratus, a type of bread that was discovered fossilized in the ruins of Pompeii, along with a cheese made from goat's milk.

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Ep 5

Sohla Cooks a 1,000-Year-Old Hangover Cure

Mar 27, 2021

Sohla travels back to the Islamic Golden Age of 10th-century Baghdad and recreates Kishkiyya, a 1,000-year-old hangover cure from one of the oldest Arabic cookbooks.

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Ep 6