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Ancient Recipes with Sohla

Season 3
Ancient Recipes with Sohla will be taking the food you know and love and tracing it back to its origins. In each episode, professional chef Sohla El-Waylly will detail the surprising history of some of our favorite dishes.
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Episodes

  1. S3 E1 - Tracing the First French Toast Back to Ancient Rome
    October 13, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly follows the fascinating history of French toast all the way back to the Roman Empire, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  2. S3 E2 - King Tut's Egyptian Flatbread (Found in His Tomb!)
    October 20, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Were pancakes REALLY found in King Tut's tomb? Join Sohla El-Waylly as she unearths the truth behind this legend--and bakes some delicious treats in the process.
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  3. S3 E3 - Sohla Cooks Jianbing: China's Ancient Street Food
    November 3, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly makes jianbing, a savory and crispy Chinese breakfast crepe, and uncovers the history behind this beloved street food.
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  4. S3 E4 - The ORIGINAL Donut is Fluffy, Sugary Bliss
    October 27, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly fries up a batch of the original Dutch colonial donuts--and discovers their spooky connection to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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  5. S3 E5 - GOOEY and GLORIOUS Colonial Mac and Cheese
    November 10, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly recreates the mac & cheese of James Hemmings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved chef, who fed the now famous dish to early colonial leaders at Monticello.Sohla El-Waylly recreates the Oneida People's cornbread, and explores the remarkable story of how the Oneida People helped save George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  6. S3 E6 - How the Oneida People (and their Cornbread) Saved the US Revolution
    November 24, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly recreates the Oneida People's cornbread, and explores the remarkable story of how the Oneida People helped save George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  7. S3 E7 - How to Cook the ORIGINAL Pizza Margherita from 1889
    November 24, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly fires up the pizza oven to recreate the original pizza cooked in Naples in the 1800s. Learn the surprising history behind this classic pie, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  8. S3 E8 - Sohla Cooks the FIRST Thanksgiving Feast from 1621
    November 17, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly uncovers the true story of the first Thanksgiving, and cooks up an historically accurate feast (with no turkey or cranberry sauce), in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  9. S3 E9 - 1300 Year Old Chinese Cookies Are Deliciously Complex
    December 8, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly recreates the OLDEST cookie ever discovered--1,300-year-old Chinese desserts from the Golden Age of China, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla.
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  10. S3 E10 - The Dessert That Napoleon Couldn't Resist
    December 29, 2023
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sacrebleu! Sohla El-Waylly tackles her biggest historic challenge yet--recreating a dessert by Marie-Antoine Careme, the first French celebrity chef.
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  11. S3 E11 - Sohla Makes Beautiful Japanese Candy Art
    January 5, 2024
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly tries making, Amezaiku, the ancient Japanese craft of creating beautiful sculptures from sugar.
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  12. S3 E12 - Cooking Cleopatra's FAVORITE Foods
    January 12, 2024
    20min
    TV-PG
    Sohla El-Waylly has a blast recreating all the delicious foods Cleopatra would have eaten in a day.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Producers
Sarah WalkerBrian HuffmanJon Erwin
Cast
Sohla El-Waylly
Studio
A+E Networks
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