What is the world's oldest surviving recipe?
If we take this to mean the oldest surviving written recipe, most historians would agree with Guinness World Records, which confers this accolade on a set of recipes inscribed on three clay slabs dating from around 1700 BC. These tablets were made by people of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia, a region spanning what is now part of Iraq and surrounding countries.
In the mid-1980s, French historian Jean Bottéro translated the texts,
