The Oldest Cuisine in the World

Jean Bottéro is director emeritus of L'École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He is the author of many books, several of which have been translated and published by the University of Chicago Press, including most recently, Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated more than a dozen books, including Jean-Claude Schmitt's Ghosts in the Middle Ages and Rémi Brague's The Wisdom of the World, both published by the University of Chicago Press.