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What's the oldest known recipe?

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Archaeologists have found remnants of food resembling our own all over the world.

For much of history, cooking was an art passed down orally and not often documented in writing.

Ancient instructions for making food often didn't have weights and measures the way today 's cookbooks do.

Some words from ancient recipes are untranslatable and others refer to ingredients that no longer exist.

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