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Aug 2023
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Mésopotamie: la plus vieille cuisine du ...

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C’est la première cuisine de l’humanité. La cuisine mésopotamienne. Que cultivait-on entre le Tigre et l’Euphrate, au quatrième millénaire avant notre ère ? Et que cuisinait-on à l’époque ? C’est le thème de ce numéro du Berceau de l’Histoire, avec Brigitte Lion, assyriologue, historienne et professeure à La Sorbonne.

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