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I started writing Table of Gods in June 2019. In November 2022, I launched this site and have posted about my monthly progress since.

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I’m Done with the Manuscript. After writing almost daily for five years, I’ve now completed the manuscript. It’s a huge storytelling...

Scholars Reviewing My Work. From the left, Dr. Brad Hafford, Dr. Salvatore Gaspa, and Dr. Simo Parpola. Table of Gods is not an academic...

Pausing Social Media and YouTube. In early May, I began feeling stressed. Partly due to my self-imposed deadlines to complete the book in...

284 Recipe Testers From All Over the World. Just like many other things in this project, I had no experience with recipe testers. I...

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...

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...

Photo shoot. Almost three years have passed since the first photo shoot. The same team gathered again (my parents, sister, a food...

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...

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...

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...

Documentary about Ashurbanipal. Seven people contributed as voice actors (all quotes in the documentary are in Assyrian), and three...

Five New Recipes. We completed five new recipes this month: garlic beer, mackerel, tuna, siqqu (fish sauce), and kebabu (meat skewers)....

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...

I completed the manuscript. The most important news from June is that I’ve finally finished writing the book manuscript. After about 4.5...

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...

Doubled down on beer brewing. After brewing beer based on ancient cuneiform texts for four months – with failures such as explosions (not...

Traveled to Iraq (Assyria). I'm in Nahla while writing this. An Assyrian village in northern Iraq. A place where the villagers still hunt...

Completed a new chapter – Lagash. Lagash has been featured in many news sites lately. Recently, archeologists found a public tavern...

Made two new YouTube videos. We've spent a lot of time creating new YouTube videos as part of our mission to make Mesopotamian history...

I was featured on Sweden’s largest news media – SVT. The 2 min reportage was published on SVT’s website and shown during the TV morning...