Ancient Recipes With Sohla (2021)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 2021-02-27
Last Air Date: 2022-02-12
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 25
Networks: History
Top Cast
- Sohla El-Waylly as Sohla El-Waylly
Seasons
Season 1 (2021)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: How to Cook Pizza on a Shield Like a 600 BC Persian Soldier
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
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!)
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
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
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: Sohla Makes an Ancient Chinese Hamburger (Rou Jia Mo From 200 BCE!)
Sohla recreates Rou Jia Mo, one of the first versions of a hamburger from ancient China in 200 BCE.
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