Thanks to Evan Kleiman for inviting me to discuss my new book on the Good Food podcast and radio show. Available online now or on KCRW in LA tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 14, 10–11am www.kcrw.com/culture/show...

Why did Mesopotamians drink beer through straws? | Good Food

Archaeologist Tate Paulette explores ancient beers.

I've reviewed your book here, at the end of a rather long discussion of the Hymn to Ninkasi … TL/DR, I think it's excellent zythophile.co.uk/2024/09/27/n...

No, the ‘Hymn to Ninkasi’ is NOT a recipe for making Sumerian beer - Zythophile

It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, k...