List of ancient dishes

Foods

Some ancient foods are no longer eaten as a regular part of diets:

• Ashishim – Levantine^[9] red lentil pancake dish of Ancient Israelite origin that was commonly eaten by Jews in antiquity.^[10]
• Black soup^[11]
• Garum – Phoenicia,^[12] ancient Greece (where it was known as γάρος) and the Roman Empire, known from before Pompeii's destruction in 79 CE.^[13][14]
• Jusselle^[15]
• Kandaulos
• Libum
• Liquamen, see garum

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  Moretum – Herb cheese spread^[16]
• Myma – Ancient Greek meat dish
• Opus lactarium – documented as existing during the ancient Roman Empire^[17]
• Oxygala – a dairy product in ancient Greece and Rome.^[17] It was also consumed by ancient Persians.^[18]
• Placenta cake – a layered cake of pastry, cheese and honey originating in ancient Greece and Rome^[19][20]
• Puls – Ancient Roman pottage
• Silphium – used as a seasoning
• Tetrapharmacum
• Touloumotiri is an ancient cheese that is considered as the "forerunner to feta".^[21]
• Tracta was a kind of bread, pastry, or pancake in ancient Greece and perhaps Rome.^[22]

Beverages

• Alban wine
• Caecuban wine
• Chian wine
• Coan wine – Grecian alcoholic beverage
• Conditum – Ancient Roman spiced wine
• Falernian wine – Variety of ancient Roman wine
• Gaza wine – Byzantine-period wine from southern Palestine, shipped from Gaza
• Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting mainly of a barley gruel mixture with various additives, sometimes written as having psychoactive properties associated with religious visions.^[23]
• Mulsum – Wine mixed with honey
• Oenomel
• Passum – Historical type of wine
• Posca – Ancient Roman drink
• Pulque – Alcoholic beverage made from agave
• Shedeh – Ancient Egyptian beverage
• Soma – Vedic ritual drink
• Vino Greco – Style name of Roman imitation of Greek wines
• Vinum Hadrianum – Wine from Atri
• Zythum – Ancient Egyptian beer variety

Food

Some ancient foods continue to be eaten:

• Congee^[25]
• Fig-cake (develah) – eaten by Jews in antiquity, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and in the Jerusalem Talmud^{[citation needed]}
• Fish sauce, see garum
• French toast, earliest reference appears in 1st century Rome^{[citation needed]}
• Forcemeat^[26]
• Ham – dry-cured ham has been produced since ancient times.^[27][28][29]
• Hardtack – versions using various grains date back to ancient Rome, and as far back as ancient Egypt.^[30]
• Jeok^{[citation needed]}
• Lamb stew – Described in the Yale culinary tablets, ancient Babylonian tablets from 1700 BCE^[8]
• Lucanica – Roman Italy, mentioned by Cicero, 1st century BCE^[31][32]
• Maccu – fava bean soup eaten in Sicily during Roman times^[33]
• Mantou – dates to 307 BCE – 250 BCE^[34]
• Moustalevria – Traditional Greek kind of pudding
• Nettle stew – Evidence of consumption dates to around 1000 BCE at Must Farm, in Cambridgeshire, England.^[35]
• Noodles – existent since at least 2,000 BCE in Northwest China,^[36][37] the noodle was developed independently in ancient China and ancient Rome, and remained common in both areas "through the centuries".^[38]
• Oatcake – known to exist at least from Roman times in Britain.^[39]
• Papadzules – a common dish in Maya cuisine that may be "one of the most ancient traditional dishes of Yucatán, Mexico.^[24]

• Sauerkraut^[40]
• Sausage^[a][42]
• Sop^[43]
• Soy sauce^[44]
• Tamale^[45]
• Testaroli^[46][47]
• Tharida^[48]
• Tofu^[49]
• Wonton^{[citation needed]}
• Zongzi^[50]

Beverages

• Kombucha originated in what is now Northeastern China around 220 BCE ^[51][52]
• Soy milk has been consumed in China since ancient times.^[53]

Dairy products

• Buttermilk – existed before 1 CE in ancient India^[17]
• Kumis – documented as existing in ancient Scythia^[17]
• Quark (lac concretum) – documented as existing in ancient Scythia^[17]
• Schiston – "separated milk" purported to have been invented by physicians during the time of the Ancient Roman Empire and Pliny the Elder^[17][54] It was prepared by boiling milk or whey along with pebbles.^[54][55]
• Shrikhand – documented as existing c. 800 to 300 BCE in ancient India^[17]
• Smy – thickened milk^[b] documented as existent in ancient Egypt^[17]

Cheeses

• Caciocavallo
• Feta – existed during the times of Homer in ancient Greece^[57]
• Kefalotyri – dates to the Byzantine Empire^[58]
• Pecorino Romano – is one of the world's most ancient cheeses^[59][60]
• Pecorino Sardo (Flore sardo) – one of the world's oldest cheeses that is believed to date back to the Bronze Age^[61]
• Pecorino Siciliano^[62]
• Salers^[63]

• Ancient cheeses
• 
  Cantal cheese
• 
  Feta