welcome to Mythic location where we are recreating some of the most notable meals throughout history today’s historic meal is inspired by Cleopatra’s banquet for Marc Anthony as documented by Roman historian Pliny the Elder in 77 A.D Cleopatra became ruler of Egypt at 18 years old and was equally charismatic and ruthless using both qualities to further Egypt’s political aims Legend has it that in 41 BCE Cleopatra wagered that she could stage a feast more lavish than her lover Marc Anthony ever could today we’re recreating parts of this historic banquet bringing the best that ancient Egypt had to offer we got roast Goose cattle stuffed pigeons and we’re topping things off with a dulces kakora AKA tiger nut sweets which are one of the oldest recipes ever found and that’s not even the craziest part as The Story Goes Cleopatra took the pearls from her earrings and dissolved them in a glass of vinegar and then drank it as a mind-blowing grand finale that caused Marc Anthony ultimately to lose the BET and on that note I’ve hey boom I guess I don’t have to ask what your fursona is anymore yeah that no most cats tend to do that at least you didn’t bite me which I kind of thought she’d do but she could just go I’m coming back but only because I want to and not because you want me do you want me to put my car keys there and you can just paw them off the counter I’ll pile whatever I want yes you will I didn’t give myself a butthole and I think that I should have because cats always show their buttholes to you don’t they they really do just a Matt dude in post yeah yeah add a butthole and post that’s what we pay our editors make it um oh you remember those things that cats did um by the way I’m Cleopatra’s cat yeah that’s what he’s doing cats were a big symbol in ancient Egypt they were used in a lot of religious rituals and cats weren’t per se owned by people but they sort of had their favorite cats that were always hanging around they were associated with several deities yep and they’re buttholes Cleo catrick can I call you cleocatra no I haven’t heard that joke before Oh my God it’s a bit derivative um but right now do you want to help me we’re making some of Cleopatra’s favorite foods uh as we mentioned she and Mark Anthony they were one just debauchers I mean they’re just going at it all the time but they were also huge Foodies because for Cleopatra asserting I can’t the cat is distracting me and I’m gonna distract the cat and it’s gonna be a mess today it’s gonna be a mess Cleopatra used a lot of social influence to actually Curry favor with people so stuff like food which was a heat stuff like food stuff like food which is a huge status symbol she could kind of show her egyptian-ness because she wasn’t actually let’s say ethnically Egyptian she was in the tolmeg dynasty so she was Hellenistic or Greek but a lot I’m dying point is in Egypt they ate a lot of game birds including the Egyptian goose do you want to kill it let’s get it get the goose clean catcher we’re making Egyptian goose very very common bird and there was just a lot of roast going on there were a lot of Banquets there were always courting people because the Egyptian Empire was closely tied with Rome so they had like the syrians the Armenians they just had a bunch of different the Nubians bunch of different people they had to entertain so they’d always make food so we’re doing cattle God the cat’s gone that’s fine I’m taking over the shout out the cat comes back when the cat wants to come back and that’s fine it was something I thought I saw a rat can you start crushing some coriander there and then you’re gonna add in the dates with pomegranate juice and honey so that’s gonna be a lacquer for this roast Goose there are a lot of spices a lot of nuts a lot of dried fruits used in Egyptian Cuisine again this is like before the actual Roman Empire so a lot of the influence is going to be coming from Greek so I’m taking a lot of these spices we got cinnamon we got a lot of black pepper we got salt we got cumin going in there beautiful beautiful so we’ve done a lot of like kind of ancient Roman cooking on this and I haven’t done a lot of of Greek it’s funny because people talk about Cleopatra being you know the the like last Egyptian pharaoh which is true but also uh she was part of the ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemy was a homie of uh patola me I’m sorry I don’t know the pronunciation you guys in present day you really mess up the pronunciation that’s all of me and also Caesar’s Kaiser okay uh caves are so sad no I will tell you that as I was what’s happening I’m not doing a hairball thing that is just really it’s punching it’s nice a lot of punch and slices again spices were a way to show your wealth and consolidating power is really big these Cleopatra’s rule was like you know the legitimacy of it was often questioned uh her brothers died in a lot of various uh circumstances uh a lot of people think that her family is just known for killing each other they’re also known for marrying each other yeah that was a big well that was you know Common I’m not here to justify I watched House of the dragon and I didn’t think that’s right well listen I could I want to talk trash about all of her husbands yeah you didn’t like them I mean the first one was like her little brother yeah told me the 13th I believe yeah that kid was like 10. yeah and he did not know how to hold me I don’t think he knew how to hold clear it was like it was like a lot of this and I was like he should not have a baby yeah yeah so but he would do that and then he would like here I’ll masturbate can you tell your stories about Ptolemy the 13th you talking about me like really hard and fast and it’s like you gotta you know warm up the cat before you go in hard and fast that’s just a good life lesson for you uh Caesar and and Mark Anthony they knew what to do they were and they were hot yeah we had ABS they were good everybody knows that also uh patola me the the 13th and the 14th um okay yeah that happens that happens I I’m gonna fist this Goose real quick so I’m gonna take these onions and shove into the goose cavity we I’m just kidding give me one second we got a bunch of wine we got a bunch of dried pigs got rosemary we’ve got this lovely roast of cattle right here this is a beef shank cattle is a huge status symbol and also the bull was a sacred symbol go ahead you were talking about Marc Anthony’s ABS no but told me the 13th and 14th let me tell you they would sometimes like they’d throw a ball and be like go get it I’m like I am not a dog I got one you ever seen anything like that I’m gonna I got this beautiful lacquer so this is coriander this is dates this is pomegranate again a lot of people that looks like blood a lot of seasonings back then we’re really just like kind of fruits and nuts and they had a lot of warm spices all right Cleo catcher I’m gonna call you cleocatra please don’t my name is Horus sorry Horus we got this goose is nice and Loud up a bunch of names the people gave cats back then and that was the best I would name a cat horse today yeah so we got our roasted Goose again this is like the big sunny days for the banquet yep here you pot down yeah is it hot no it’s not hot okay also my cat does not care if it’s hot it’s going all right so we’re just gonna roast that goose off we’re eventually gonna cover it we’re gonna tent it um again these would have been just roasted over an open fire by a court cook because in Egypt they had this big sort of Greek dynastic Rule and they had a whole lot of cooks employed all right and the cat’s gone okay that’s fine now we can finally talk I mean oh God it’s back I need a spray bottle I hate you so much hey you forgot your your giblets well V thank you for delivering our giblets and you look so fashionable in your mythical vacation sweater this is made of a fabric called boucle and I knew about it before two minutes ago what are you doing and it’s available as I’m sorry this is my cat just the cat loves Fabrics just can you be chill with a cat can you not I like it.com to get your official mythical vacation sweater in gray and blue apparently during the the big Feast that Cleopatra was doing to impress Mark Anthony she put a pearl in in vinegar and then it disintegrated and she did a shot of it yeah she drank her own Pearl yeah which is kind of similar to what I do with whiskey but it’s not that impressive apparently they’re like oh I’m worried what do you do with what are you put well I try to impress guys oh yeah look how much whiskey I can drink you’re not like eating your own jewels we don’t have we just have uh plastic pearls but I’m just gonna put them in there anyway see how many you can swallow yeah if you want cook yeah it would be awesome if you can chop up these giblets so hameemashi this is stuffed pigeon this was actually probably Cleopatra’s favorite dish it was something that she served a lot of foreign dignitaries ate a lot herself we got some pigeon over here AKA squab and we got giblets we have free k that’s what we’re stuffing it with so I’m gonna start by sauteing off some aromatics and yeah I know it’s a lot cooking’s distracting so we got our butter going we’re gonna toss in these onions right here there we go can you chop the juice so the giblets these are the internal organs of the squab so we got kidney we got heart we got liver in there and then of course you’re an ancient Egypt you’re not gonna waste the good organs here instead of doing that if you want to just put lemon juice on these I can chop this up okay because we’re eventually gonna saute the free kit with some allspice and some cinnamon salt and pepper with these giblets it’s almost like a Cajun dirty rice you know yeah there we go oh that heart looks like a nipple why do hearts look like nipples what the heck do your nipples look like look like you show them off all the time I know this is a heart doesn’t look like I can’t make a visual on it doesn’t my nibble look like a pigeon heart my cat growing up he was like Barrel and then um but we we took them in anyway boy he was he was wild um but he uh would kill everything yeah um yeah yeah and one time maybe I shouldn’t tell this story tell the story Emily when does that ever stopped you from doing anything um no so my cat like killed a rabbit and then ripped off its ears and then left it on the front porch and he was like right check it out what we’re going to do is we’re going to take the squab we gotta rub down the lemon juice we’re gonna hit it with some salt and pepper and then we are going to stuff these and we’re going to get it get them roasting in a clay pot so good so she like tried to impress him by like showing up with food and stuff like that to Marc Anthony yeah yeah not to be careful with Mark Anthony so Mark Anthony I feel like we should no wait when we’re talking Marc Anthony is a singer Anthony was Cleopatra’s lover and what had happened was Cleopatra effectively seduced Julius Caesar whatever seduced means we don’t know if it was explicitly sexual but they did eventually have a kid together and so what happened was basically big old Roman Civil War Egypt relied on Rome for uh protection and then Rome relied on Egypt for resources but Rome had the bigger Army also the origins you know and so basically there was a Civil War and it was you had like General Pompey uh in the west and you had Julius Caesar they basically fought Pompey gets driven out Julius Caesar is sort of the rightful this is the pre-emperor days Cleopatra’s brother definitely yeah and so what happened is Pompey flees to Egypt in Exile he’s like I’m gonna peace out right now I just lost the Civil War and then uh Cleopatra’s brother told me the 13th who’s like a child at the time basically they kind of captured Pompey and they’re like yo what do we do to make Caesar like us even more uh and So eventually Caesar sort of laid Siege to Alexandria told me the 13th dies drowning while trying to flee in full armor it was like I want okay now I gotta fix this how do I do it I’m gonna seduce him by disguising myself as a carpet which I think is Rad She was an incredible an incredible States person out there she was using her Wiles and her Guiles out there her whole dynasty was just crumbling it was sort of the end of the Pharaoh age Egypt was such a diverse culture you had a lot of Hellenistic people you had Romans coming on from all across the Empire how do you keep this stable seduction you’re right oh cat fell asleep yeah cats sleep a lot so I’m gonna take some of these pigeons it’s gonna fist it and then we’re just gonna stop you know what’s filling and then what’s up I feel like uh Cleopatra you know is impressing him with all this like Marc Anthony with all this you know wealth and and stuff it doesn’t usually work I am I I pay for dinner a lot on dates and I feel like you could see in their face they’re like hey that’s my thing yeah yeah but you took my thing I complained about yeah hey that’s true be good at conversation and cunnilingus Against All Odds these look really good ooh those dude look Visions are nice and stuff they’re nestled in here especially like The Clay Pot The Clay Pot so this was a legit cooking method baby cactuses we’re effectively gonna roast it and braise it here hey do you know that Marc Anthony at any given time in the palace had eight wild boars roasting at different levels of doneness because he just wanted to be able to walk into the kitchen and go hey give me some perfectly cooked wild boar the guy sounds great he sounds pretty rad he’s just a dude that knows what he wants all right so we got the chicken stock in there we’re gonna bake these off uh probably about 45 minutes just to sort of let them do a quick Breeze get that stuffing hydrated and then now we gotta make some dessert well yeah okay let’s do that I go so yeah that’s it where’s the totally normal cat oh we’re making I am not normal I am a royal cat is the Royal cat I’m sorry I have addressed you with such horse the Royal cat uh his cat of catliness the Holy cat emperor of all cats am I establishing that I’m a male cat I don’t mind that oh you can be a mountain you can be whatever you want yeah I’m a male cat a horse the male cat we are making Cleopatra’s favorite desserts these are called dulce’s kokora AKA tiger nut sweets see you just described exactly who I am you’re the tiger nuts I have tiger nuts I know it’s like we forgot to mention also I know that you’re supposed to think like why is she an orange cat well guess what roll the roll the the tape at least there’s a whole like drawing tape is annalize rolling not it’s not it’s one image it’s one image we found where the cat is orange when it was drawn on the wall and so now I’m saying that all of the cats were orange the oldest known recipe for dulce’s kokora dates back oh yeah we’re cooking BC it was actually found on a Shard of broken pottery and we will be making both that version and since Cleopatra was just born in around 69.80 nice uh we’re going to make a somewhat more modern version so you got cinnamon tiger nut flour uh some walnuts and dates and you’re just gonna blend that in here with some honey so just add that and then we’ll put some money in yeah yeah and then this version that we’re doing again would have been more modern around Cleopatra’s time uh this is very similar dump it dump it this is very similar to the Greek dish locomotes which are like a honey syrup donut yes that’s the tiger nut flour so drop that in we have more to add if we need I’m gonna drop in some of this honey to make a honey syrup to cook our dulcus cocora in yeah dump that cinnamon in come on sometimes you have stuff that it’s like you’re supposed to put a little bit of it in I know what you mean yeah we’re pretty confusing about it my favorite thing is you get all these little dishes out you could just put all the stuff in there at once in there I know but little dishes it looks nice on camera looks nice on camera you can see what’s how much of stuff I’m adding figs walnuts and warm water to uh a flour dough and then I’m just gonna mix this up until it forms a paste and then we’re gonna boil that in the honey syrup which is gonna be really good because I love lukumares the Greek food guy why did you laugh about lucamanus what’s funny about locomotes I don’t know I’m just trying to be alive she asked me to deliver a letter today forgot to do it what letter what was the letter it’s one that’s like I think I think dyeing sounds good oh that one no she wouldn’t say that but she already lives I mean I’m a cat I can’t read great but like that’s fair it kind of seemed like something yeah find a snake which yeah I don’t like snakes well it’s kind of you know you were like protecting her from snakes but now she seems to want a snake well as we’ve seen from the Cucumber situation I’m not great at that you have to tell me they’re coming and then I’m like I see it we got one tiger nut ball so this is what it is this is like a real Rough and Tumble donut situation I’m gonna boil that in the honey syrup wait I want to do that yeah here you uh yeah you like you like making uh tiger nut balls my favorite thing is there’s like a lot of well it’s not doing it now you do this I’m gonna do this I’m gonna do this so that we don’t get stuff on it there we go yeah I like what’s going on um you’re more doing what I would call A Biscuit technique where you even out biscuit dough you like making you like bacon biscuits don’t you buddy this is what I like oh Big Stretch oh Big Stretch oh there’s the Big Stretch I like to make a lot of eye contact especially when Cleopatra’s taking we’re blending again this is the ancient recipe it would have been pounded out in a mortar and pestle they didn’t have no food processor this is pretty true to it we had a little bit more tiger nut flour in there then one Ball’s gone one Ball’s gone but that didn’t stop Lance Armstrong that looks different yeah well these are different I explained how they were different like why do we have different boxes because this is the oldest record recipe that would have been about 1500 years before we still wanted to Showcase to them but hey look at this cool ancient recipe you know yeah can you put two of the syrup throw in the syrup this one is it too big God’s huge yeah that’s the floor one you where’d you get the floor one did one of you give it to her Morgan don’t don’t give the cat the floor streets we gotta pull the roasts out of the oven uh then we got a couple other kuchaman and then cat you ready to eat at the dinner table like people that can be adorable I get to be on the table you’re gonna be on the table now I don’t usually get to be on tables [Music] Horace the cat Emily the furry thank you so much for joining us we are finally at Mark Anthony and Cleopatra’s epic banquet uh we got the dried fruit we got the dried nuts we got the pomegranate we got the honey we got the olive oil we got wine we got beer we got perch we got bread we got rose water we got balls we also got like the cup of vinegar with the Pearl vinegar with the Pearl let’s try this Roasted Ox shank right here this is looking like a big old thing a tex-ass barbecue right here I just want to see if the pearls the fork would not have been invented in ancient Egypt dude look at that cat kitty cat thank you get in the plastic pearls did not disintegrate in the vinegar unfortunately eat them and then you’re gonna poop them out and then we’re gonna have to take you to the hospital for a prolapse dance I really did have to do that but the thing is that maybe it would just be like a string of cat hair holding them all together and then yeah she does this all the time I’m good this roasted shank with all that wine and the figs is silly good try it no dip it in there vinegar is very good did it look like I drink everything because there’s nothing in this cup no no nothing it’s dangerous to drink vinegar don’t do it kids um I’m dipping the juice yeah I imagine this is how they did it at the table this is how Cleopatra really seduced Marc Anthony she was just like so what [Music] what Rome life so it’s rough wow this is a big chunk you got a lot of meat oh I need something this is not beer I’m gonna carb up some Goose you know some goose I wonder if like conversations on first dates like this were as awkward as real life I’m Awesome on first dates oh did I kill it what do you do tell them the facts about literally everything in the room yeah and everybody loves it without fail wooden tables were actually oh yes I can’t figure out how to get this off hold on you got to go hands there it is yeah we got it okay the fat is rendered nicely I mean the skin is lacquered this they knew how to eat man [Music] most the time can I give advice about first dates to y’all the Locker on this is so good you have to ask about someone’s family or their job you’re not that interesting asking about what Julie did she was like Hey I listen to a really interesting podcast you should listen to I know we should talk about it no not podcast no it was about the right to be uh to have your digital footprint deleted when you die you have the right to the privacy in modern digital age you know even after death and then I was like ultimately I don’t really get matters every day I don’t know considering nothing happens after you jump on them who cares there’s goose is good as hell man Josh God damn yo what’s fun to think about what’s that when we die this video will still exist yeah this is what we’re getting here I hope honest your Egyptians might have invented foil Raw I was afraid that today I was gonna come in here and this is gonna be gross nope it’s gonna be more fish sauce this is going to be more weird stuff but damn dig into that pigeons anal cavity all right laughs it’s tied yeah yeah wait get him so this is that stuffed pigeon that we got we got all the free k in there we have the internal organs of it here use your claws I lost my knife there’s a lot going on in this table do it we can all just get our own okay but now yeah there we go it’s me of the opening of True Blood when there’s like this box yeah never mind I’m really obsessed with those Goose I love this stuff pigeon a little bit of a lean meat for me Goose man that is indulgent ah dang I’m into this bread I’m gonna start dipping this in honey we got some cheese so did they not have napkins in Egypt these are servants sure man if you want to eat some of that fish that’s perch you and I’ve been trying to force feed me fish for as long as you’ve known me it’s true I do but not your stank ass this is perch this is a good Nile River fish that thing’s still got eyes fish is this the one that was on the floor no so this is the ancient ball this is the new ball whichever one you want to eat I’m going ancient ball egg old balls okay I’ll go ancient ball first what is that do we dip it in that okay what is it mine throw whatever you want man okay so out of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra party there were no rules right it was all pleasure baby was all debauchery I don’t like it why not this is a wet wet sweet Ball but it’s like doughy it feels like it should have like oh but it’s just like 2 000 years ago what did you want from them they didn’t have they didn’t have donkeys back then you know what this is like a cliff bar but in a ball it is though and I really think Clif Bar should be Cliff balls I’m really impressed with these to me these are something that would hold up but again a lot of the techniques used in like ancient Greece that would have come to Egypt by way of that Hellenistic tradition like there are a lot of things that we still kind of use to this day again this dish right here is still popular in Egypt for a snake that’s fine I’m gonna just keep it what you doing with the snake I don’t I don’t know I don’t know she’s been locked in her um cut off her hair I think she’s going through a breakup I don’t care what she needs it for I just give her whatever she wants well hopefully it’ll answer Cleopatra hopefully it all ends well for you what a Segway where’s the cat thank you so much for helping me a lot problem don’t do anything weird I had a lovely time I’m glad I saw your butthole um and thank you all so much for stopping by the kitchen I said this episode of meals of history or send a better one to a friend and watch all the uh other ones as well that’d be really cool the snake poop I’ll see y’all next time How can you forget to be your mythical best when it’s embroidered on your chest the new bymb embroidered hoodies are available now at mythical.com