Back to Babylon Cookbook

The Back to Babylon Cookbook is where Suzan Raad’s history of ancient eating becomes dinner. If Back to Babylon tells the story of how people ate in the earliest civilisations, the Back to Babylon Cookbook hands you the pots and pans — a practical companion that turns that older wisdom into food you can actually make this week.

Ancient wisdom, everyday kitchen

The Back to Babylon Cookbook is built on a simple idea: that many of the healthiest ways to eat are also some of the oldest. It draws on whole grains, pulses, herbs, fermented foods and seasonal produce — the staples that fed people for thousands of years — and brings them into a modern kitchen without fuss or hard-to-find ingredients. The aim is food that feels nourishing and familiar rather than clinical.

Recipes that work with your biology

Every recipe in the Back to Babylon Cookbook is chosen with the same thread in mind that runs through all of Suzan Raad’s work: that what you eat is a signal your body reads. Cooking with whole, recognisable ingredients is one of the clearest ways to send your genes the kind of signals they evolved to expect. This is where the science of epigenetics quietly meets the everyday act of making a meal.

More than a recipe collection

The Back to Babylon Cookbook is not just a stack of recipes. It carries the story of where each way of cooking comes from, so that preparing a dish also means understanding why it works and where it began. That context turns cooking into something richer — a small, daily connection to a much longer human history of feeding ourselves well.

Who the book is for

The Back to Babylon Cookbook is for home cooks, curious eaters and anyone who wants their kitchen to reflect the ideas in Suzan Raad’s other books. You do not need to be an experienced cook; the recipes are approachable and the ingredients are ordinary. It is equally at home with someone new to whole-food cooking and someone who simply wants a deeper reason behind what they put on the table.

Part of a bigger picture

The Back to Babylon Cookbook completes the set alongside Suzan Raad’s other books. Epigenix explains the science, Epigenetic Awakening looks at the mind, the Epigenetic Diet sets out the approach, and Back to Babylon tells the history. The Back to Babylon Cookbook is where all of it finally lands on your plate.

If you believe good food should feed both the body and a sense of where we come from, the Back to Babylon Cookbook was written for your kitchen — ancient in its roots, and completely at home in a modern week of cooking.