100 ancient recipies

ANCIENT MEALS · 092 / 100 Moche fruit representation and food landscape · North coast and adjacent valleys of Peru · c. 100–700 CE Evidence: historically informed adaptation. The historical evidence and modern cooking choices are distinguished below. Jump to recipe A fruit enters the museum Ancient Peruvian artists modeled plants as well as people and animals. Museo Larco's fruit gallery identifies a Moche bottle representing lúcuma, within a broad first-millennium date range. The object demonstrates that the fruit mattered enough to depict. It cannot reveal whether the vessel ever held a lúcuma pudding, and its museum date is wider than this article's approximately 700 CE cutoff. The El Brujo archaeological complex's discussion of lúcuma considers plant remains and the use of the tree's wood in a Moche context. Fruit, tree, material, and image are different lines of evidence. They enrich the historical setting without adding up automatically to a preserved recipe. A...