CHAPTER 2
There are no known recipes or texts from Egypt that tell us about cooking, but we know about its culinary tastes from a multitude of archaeological and iconographic sources. After recounting the most significant culinary landmarks, we enter the world of banquets in honour of the deceased, the gastronomic events par excellence. There is no section on public cuisine because we do not have sources detailing it. We suppose that it existed, but there is no evidence of it.
