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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Dust, Grain, and Gold: The Nile's Table, from the Pharaoh to the Field (Book One of the Dust, Grain, and Gold Series)

Dust, Grain, and Gold: The Nile's Table, from the Pharaoh to the Field (Book One of the Dust, Grain, and Gold Series)

Sinclair, Margaux

Paperback

African CookingAncient Egypt

ISBN13: 9798194057160
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nine ducks. Four geese. Beef mummified with the same care given to a king's own body. When Tutankhamun's tomb was opened in 1922, it revealed a kitchen sealed for three thousand years, provisioned for an eternity its young occupant never had the chance to actually live.
Dust, Grain, and Gold follows that same conviction, that the dead required real feeding, across six distinct tables spanning the whole of ancient Egyptian society. A pharaoh's banquet, reconstructed from tomb paintings never meant to document a single ordinary meal. A temple's daily offering cycle, where a formally named theological system fed both gods and priests through the exact same bread. A pyramid worker's monthly ration, precise enough to survive on payroll ostraca, and substantial enough that these laborers staged history's first documented strike when it arrived late. A farmer's harvest, governed entirely by the Nile's three season flood. A tomb's stone offering table, kept stocked across generations by hired priests. And finally, beer itself, the one beverage that touched pharaoh and laborer alike.

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