Cooking Cleopatra's FAVORITE Foods | Ancient Recipes with Sohla

Sohla El-Waylly has a blast recreating all the delicious foods Cleopatra would have eaten in a day.

Ancient Recipes with Sohla takes the food you know and love and traces it back to its origins. In each episode, Sohla El-Waylly details the surprising history of some of our favorite dishes as she attempts to recreate the original version using historical cooking techniques and ingredients. Along the way, Sohla highlights the differences between the ancient recipe and how we would prepare the modern version today.

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[janeperanteau]

My Pakistani friends consider about three dates a sufficient dessert. Your stuffed dates take it to another level and I will be trying them. So much fun to watch your episodes!

[Astarra]

Whatever you do History Channel, keep this golden nugget of a show with Sohla going, and pay her extra extra extra. Don’t be like Bon Appetit

[betsylindsay]

Her cookbook was my favorite Christmas gift this year.

[tamarapetersen]

As a historian with an interest in the ancient Mediterranean this video was fascinating.

However I'd like to address a couple of comments I read. First how do we know what people were eating 2000 years ago. In Egypt it is fairly straightforward, there was food left in tombs for the deceased journey through the underworld, there are frescos and wall paintings depicting foods. Not to mention there are some written records.

As to someone's comment about the remains of Cleopatra being in London. That is doubtful, because as far as I'm aware the tomb and body of Queen Cleopatra VII has yet to be discovered. I'm signed up to enough history periodicals that if a find of that magnitude had happened the world would know about it.

Thankyou Sohla for another wonderful and informative episode. ❤

[LilianLe]

i love the show, but would it be possible to make the music quieter? the music is very loud when Sohla is taste testing

[MiaEvans-xykn]

I bet Cleopatra would have loved snickers bars

[jackdorsey]

Dear Chef,
Can you include a "full recipe" including an ingredients list & cooking directions?

[thechad]

I just checked out your video on Pemmican, and I think there are so many untapped recipes in native indigenous cultures. I’m a tour guide in Yosemite, and acorn bread was a staple of Ahwahneechee culture, along with many other clans across California, and the continent. Here, it was either eaten plain, or mixed with crushed berries (manzanita berries, thimble berries, white stem raspberries, etc.). The processing of the acorn was a precise process that, if done incorrectly, could make the bread very bitter. Totally think it’s something you should try out!

[ikariiprince]

I felt like I was watching birdman with how the background music just NEVER stopped

[Nunkui]

Sohla is so awesome, smart, and funny! What's not to like?

[princsstofu]

Those dates. I'm making them rn for Iftar later today. They look SO GOOD

[mariamabrahamyan]

Guys, I'm so happy you are making more episodes. So fun to watch and the history you share is entertaining and accurate. Just payed attention to the map with Alexander's kingdom. Such a small detail, but you nailed it. Great job :)

[carolatwell]

Great episode! I would love to see an episode where you make an old recipe for nougat/torrone the soft sweet, generally made of egg white, honey and nuts, among other things, and where you cook it in one pot.

[eulaliorodriguez]

It is good to see you and show us to make ancient recipes. I love your ancient recipes.

[jodrew]

That lentil dish also looks absolutely amazing. In fact, I'd let that cool off and serve it over a bed of greens. Both the dates and that lentil dish are something that we all could incorporate into our modern lives.

[Pennywise]

Why am i just finding this? I adore Sohla, she's so much fun and the video is fascinating.

[munchkin.o]

your hand gestures are so gentle and peaceful.. i never saw my romanian grandma other than as little child but i like to imagine that she has the same energy as you :) thank you for your video xx

[visschernoah]

All those foods throughout Cleopatra's day look amazing. I could be all about that diet.

[stringbing]

17:44 made my day that was adorable lol

[pamelanorth]

My mom has stuffed dates every year at Christmas. Pit a date. Stuff with 1/2 of a walnut and roll in powdered sugar. The younger generations don’t care for them but the elders love them.