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Follow My Progress
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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To get my progress updates to your inbox, join the waitlist below (you’ll also get three recipes from the book).
Pre-orders for Table of Gods open in September 2025—at a special launch price. Join my progress so you don’t miss your departure into ancient Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria.
March 2025
Mentioned on Tasting History. Some of you have recently joined the waitlist after watching Max Miller’s episode on Mersu , history’s...
February 2025
Praise for Table of Gods . After writing for almost six years, I completed the manuscript for Table of Gods  in December 2024.* In...
January 2025
Design, Design, Design . Over the years, I’ve looked at more book covers than I can count. I’ve ordered dozens of art books to study the...
December 2024
Praise from beta readers . In mid-December, I sent parts of the manuscript to over 300Â beta readers. Reading through their feedback has...
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...
October 2024
Book launch in The British Museum? In mid-October I went to the British Museum for two reasons. Â 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)....
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