November 2024
Signed with a designer. Since 2020, I’ve worked with two designers. Both of whom I ended the partnership with. Not because they weren’t...
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Follow My Progress.
I started writing Table of Gods in mid-2019. In November 2022 I launched this website and have posted about my monthly progress ever since.
To get my progress updates to your inbox, join the waitlist below (you’ll also get three recipes from the book).
My goal is to complete the book in 2024 and print it in 2025.
October 2024
Book launch in The British Museum? In mid-October I went to the British Museum for two reasons. 1. I wanted to show my five-year-old...
September 2024
Received the manuscript. Last week, my story editor sent back my manuscript with hundreds of suggestions. I was terrified at first but...
August 2024
Design Hunt. I’ve been working on Table of Gods since 2019. Together with my family, scholars, photographers, food stylists, editors,...
July 2024
I’m Done with the Manuscript. After writing almost daily for five years, I’ve now completed the manuscript. It’s a huge storytelling...
June 2024
Scholars Reviewing My Work. From the left, Dr. Brad Hafford, Dr. Salvatore Gaspa, and Dr. Simo Parpola. Table of Gods is not an academic...
May 2024
Pausing Social Media and YouTube. In early May, I began feeling stressed. Partly due to my self-imposed deadlines to complete the book in...
April 2024
284 Recipe Testers From All Over the World. Just like many other things in this project, I had no experience with recipe testers. I...
March 2024
Last Chance to Be a Recipe Tester. After five years of researching, cooking, and editing, the recipes in Table of Gods are done. To make...
February 2024
Do you want to be a recipe tester? My goal is to have each recipe in Table of Gods tested by at least three people. With one recipe...
January 2024
Photo shoot. Almost three years have passed since the first photo shoot. The same team gathered again (my parents, sister, a food...
December 2023
65 recipes completed. We’ve now made 65 recipes for the book, which is twice as many as I initially planned for. A recipe editor will go...
November 2023
Pricing – latest updates. Last month I mentioned that Table of Gods could cost up to 200 USD per copy. What’s driving the cost is the...
October 2023
Self-edited six chapters. In October, I self-edited six chapters of Table of Gods. With all nine chapters now edited, I’m adding two...
September 2023
Documentary about Ashurbanipal. Seven people contributed as voice actors (all quotes in the documentary are in Assyrian), and three...
August 2023
Five New Recipes. We completed five new recipes this month: garlic beer, mackerel, tuna, siqqu (fish sauce), and kebabu (meat skewers)....
July 2023
1500 people on the waiting list! You are now 1500 individuals waiting for Table of Gods. This means a lot to me! Writing a book is not...
June 2023
I completed the manuscript. The most important news from June is that I’ve finally finished writing the book manuscript. After about 4.5...
May 2023
Served beer on channel 4 (in Sweden). This was the second time I was invited to talk about my book on live TV in Sweden. This time I...
April 2023
Doubled down on beer brewing. After brewing beer based on ancient cuneiform texts for four months – with failures such as explosions (not...
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