Eating Archaeology in the Boston Globe
The dinner, aptly named “Eating Archeology,” was the brainchild of Ilaria Patania, a graduate student who is as passionate about food as she is about archeological science.
Food is practically Patania’s native tongue; her parents run a hotel and restaurant in her native Italy. “To me, cooking is such an important part of who I am,” she said. “It reminds me of where I’m from when I’m far away.” If food could connect Patania to her roots, she wondered, what about the deeper past? What would it mean to taste a recipe thousands of years old?