You are hereHomeBARSeptember/October 2018Strata: BAR Test Kitchen: Ancient Syrian Date Pastries Jean Bottéro, The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004), p. 23. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.