Ancient Recipes With Sohla
Ancient Recipes With Sohla

Ancient Recipes With Sohla

2021 3 Seasons 25 Episodes ⭐ 0.0

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

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

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-Way

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 an

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 fossil

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

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.

EP 1

Sohla's Ancient Summer BBQ Blowout (Korean Bulgogi and Taino Barbacoa)

Almost every culture and region have their own style of barbecue; Sohla grills up two iconic types from across the globe

EP 2

Sohla Makes Garum, the Ketchup of Ancient Rome (With Max Miller!)

The kitchen gets real fishy as Sohla cooks up garum, a fermented fish sauce that was incredibly popular in ancient Rome,

EP 3

Sohla Bakes an Apple Pie Recipe From 1796 America (and Medieval England!)

Sohla makes two versions of apple pie, pitting the U.S. against the UK; Sohla recreates the oldest known recipe for appl

EP 4

Sohla Makes The Oldest Recipe in the World (...Maybe?)

Sohla goes all the way back to the Stone Age to recreate what may be the oldest recipe ever: a nettle and barley pudding

EP 5

Sohla's Ancient Cheesecake Bake Off (Greeks vs. Romans)

Sohla hosts a bake-off between the Greeks and Romans to determine the champs of ancient cheesecake.

EP 6

Sohla Makes Medieval Gnocchi (With Carla Lalli Music!)

Sohla is joined by Carla Lalli Music to recreate the earliest known recipe for gnocchi from Bartolomeo Scappi.

EP 7

The Original Chinese Dumpling Had a Unique Purpose

Sohla explores the history of Chinese dumplings and recreates a 2,000-year-old recipe for jiaozi from the legendary Chin

EP 8

The Secret Tibetan Superfood That Fuels Everest Expeditions

For more than 2,000 years, Sherpas on Mount Everest have been fueled by a Tibetan porridge called tsampa; Sohla cooks up

EP 9

Sohla Bakes a Pretzel Recipe From 1111 Bavaria

Sohla celebrates Oktoberfest by recreating the original pretzel recipe from medieval Bavaria.

EP 1

Which Original Pumpkin Pie Is Better?

Sohla aims to find out what pie was served at the first Thanksgiving and why the bakers didn't use any spices, as she ba

EP 2

Did This Bread Cause the Salem Witch Trials?

Sohla re-creates two recipes with a spooky past; first, she bakes a rye bread that may have been responsible for the Sal

EP 3

Should Meat Jelly Make a Comeback?

Sohla tackles an aspic jelly with fish tongues and lips from the earliest known Arabic cookbook.

EP 4

Pemmican: The Original Survival Food

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Sohla re-creates pemmican, a super food made of meat, fat, and berries that

EP 5

Who Had the Best Christmas Cookie Recipe?

Gingerbread men connect Abe Lincoln and Queen Elizabeth I; Sohla explores two distinct but delicious recipes for classic

EP 6

Sohla Cooks 3000-Year-Old Tamales for the Holidays

It's holiday season in the Ancient Recipes kitchen, so Sohla creates a holiday staple with truly ancient origins: tamale

EP 7

Sohla Tries a (Vegan?!) Gladiator Grain Bowl

Sohla re-creates a staple of the ancient gladiator diet: a chickpea and barley mash topped with fresh goats cheese.

EP 8

Sohla Cooks Ninja Stealth Food From the 1400s

Sohla adds fuel to the fire as she re-creates energy-packed foods of feudal Japan; a look into the nutrient-dense food b

EP 9

King Henry VIII's Lavish Brunch

Sohla makes a meal fit for a king, King Henry VIII to be exact; a lavish brunch including all the works.

EP 10

Making the Lincolns' Fave Dessert

Sohla makes a dish that had President Lincoln coming back for more.

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