Trivia: The First Cookbook Ever Written

By Alex in Daily Trivia, Food & Drink on Jan 5, 2008 at 7:58 pm

chefThe first cookbook ever was written by a Sicilian Greek named Archestratus in 350 BC. It was called Hedypatheia (Pleasant Living or Life of Luxury).


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  1. Christophe
    Jan 6th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    From Wikipedia : “This utterly admirable Chrysippus, in On Goodness and Pleasure book V, talks of: Books like Philaenis’s, and the Gastronomy of Archestratus, and stimulants to love and sexual intercourse, and then again slave girls practised in such movements and postures and specialising in the subject”

    Wow. Rachael Ray has some improvement to bring in her program!

  2. k
    Jan 6th, 2008 at 7:08 am

    meh, I’m sure that there were ones before but this one is just the most well-known.


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