One of the things I love about recipes is that it's a way to literally relive history. I can make a recipe from Ancient Rome, and experience something that a person experienced thousands of years ago.
@RickiTarr
Interesting. I get that feeling from astronomy. Like in "Done too Soon" by Neil Diamond.
They have all sweated beneath the same sun
Looked up and wondered at the same moon
And wept when it was all done
For being done too soon
For being done too soon
Anyway, aside from the song, when I look up at easily identifiable naked eye star formations or the moon, I get that feeling of a connection with the past.