Eating Archaeology in BU Today
BU Today 6/9/2016
Cooking Up the Past
BU students re-create ancient recipes, and eat them too
The sponge cake favored by 19th-century prostitutes was dense, cloyingly sweet, and pretty much inedible to someone with today’s palate. That’s according to a group of BU archaeology, gastronomy, and culinary arts students who found the century-old recipe and used it to bake their own cake.
The dessert was featured as part of a unique event titled Eating Archaeology, held last month at the College of Arts & Sciences Gabel Museum of Archaeology. Organizers dredged up antediluvian recipes, ranging from Ancient China to 19th-century America, and dared an audience of more than 100 hungry (and brave) participants to sample the dishes.
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