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Part-Time Genius

Should We Be Burying Our Food?

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.6 β€’ 1.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is cooking and preserving your food underground the hottest new culinary trend?! Probably not. But it is fascinating! From mummified victuals to Appalachian cabbage, bean hole suppers to Peruvian pachamancas, Will and Mango dig into a world of underground cuisines.

 

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0:50.9

Guess what Will?

0:51.6

What's that, Mango?

0:53.5

Do you know what a food mummy is?

0:56.9

You mean like yummy mummy, the character who hangs out with Count Chocula?

0:59.1

I mean, that's a pretty good guess.

1:04.3

But food mummies or victual mummies are ancient meals that have been found preserved in tombs alongside Egyptian pharaohs and their families.

1:07.9

Like ancient meals, so like mummified wheat and figs?

1:11.1

What are you talking about?

1:12.2

So for plant-based foods like grains, fruits, and honey, the Egyptians packed them into

1:16.7

baskets or ceramic jars, and while remnants of those foods have been found in tombs,

1:22.1

most of the perishable food decomposed a long, long time ago.

1:25.6

But this was completely different for meat and poultry

1:28.5

preserve for the afterlife. Every cut of beef for Gamebird was given the same mummification process

1:33.6

that was used on human royals and their animal pets. So first, the foods were slowly dried with

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