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Many of the world's earliest recipe collections paint the history of how cooks stewed apples and pork together, and sometimes crushed the fruit into sauces.

Look at a list of ingredients, work backward, and you can see what a civilization farmed, traded for, and treasured. Recreate that dish, and you get a sense of how other people lived.

Overall, 2022 was a good year for food and booze, but there are still several food trends in need of instant dismissal.

Some Roman writers are very well-known, notably Virgil, who wrote the Aeneid; Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-king who, when not ruling the empire, wrote

Aristocrats Who Lost All Their Money Shutterstock By Becki Robins/Jan. 15, 2021 1:09 am EDT Aristocrats are kind of known for being quirky. At various points throughout history, they've been portrayed as glamorous, ridiculous, snobbish, excessive, and about a million other adjectives. But they were almost universally not known for one particular thing, and that's being frugal. Nope, if you were born into the upper class you tended to like to flaunt your money with fancy parties and velvet robes and expensive horses. Now, some aristocrats were smarter about their cash than oth...