Making 2,000-year-old bread

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by britishmuseum
published on 03 April 2014

In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as part of his culinary investigations for 'Pompeii Live from the British Museum'. Get the full recipe and find out more at britishmuseum.org/pompeiilive

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Making 2,000-year-old bread

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