Taste!: a history in 120 recipes

History book? Indeed. Cookbook? Yes too. A richly filled meal full of spicy anecdotes at the table! Taste! A history in 120 recipes is a surprising cooking atlas that looks at our taste palette from a historical perspective. The book brings history to your plate in six tasty courses: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, savoury and spicy. For this, Van Wittenberghe draws inspiration from the authentic cookbooks that determined the taste of our ancestors for centuries. For example, she prepares octopus in the Roman style or turkey with raspberry with culinary masters such as Apicius and La Varenne. She dares to try the recipe 'lamb in cuneiform' from the oldest cookbook in the world, stirs along with the Spanish Inquisition and looks into the pots of the French bourgeoisie. Taste! Is a compilation of the world's most important cookbooks that will linger for a long time. History has never been so delicious. ANNELIES VAN WITTENBERGHE is a historian with a culinary passion. She gives numerous workshops and lectures for schools, associations and museums about the history of eating habits and tastes.