Flavours and delights : tastes and pleasures of ancient and Byzantine cuisine / texts by Andrew Dalby, Ilias Anagnostakis, Chryssi Bourbou, Johannes Koder, Maria Leontsini ; edited by Ilias Anagnostakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalby, Andrew, 1947- author.

Anagnōstakēs, Ēlias, author, editor.

Bourbou, Chryssi, author.

Koder, Johannes, author.

Leontsinē, Maria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Byzantine Empire.

Food habits.

Cooking--Byzantine Empire.

Cooking.

Manners and customs.

Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--History.

History.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Civilization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

231 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Tastes and pleasures of ancient and Byzantine cuisine

Flavours & delights

Place of Publication:

Athens ; Thessaloniki : Armos Publications, [2013]

Contents:

The flavours of Classical Greece / A. Dalby

Makedonisi(on). Parsley, the Macedonian herb / I. Anagnostakis

Byzantine diet and cuisine in between ancient and modern gastronomy / I. Anagnostakis

All in the cooking pot. Advances in the study of Byzantine diet / C. Bourbou

Eating flowers / I. Anagnostakis

Byzantine aphrodisiacs / I. Anagnostakis

Byzantine delicacies / I. Anagnostakis

Liutprand of Cremona. A critical guest at the Byzantine emperor's table / J. Kroder

Timarion / I. Anagnostakis

Hens, cockerels and other choice fowl. Everyday food and gastronomic pretensions in Byzantium / M. Leontsini

Pallikaria of lentils. The "brave boys" of beans / I. Anagnostakis

Everyday food in the Middle Byzantine period / J. Koder

Dining with foreigners / I. Anagnostakis

Food for Saints / I. Anagnostakis

The emperor's salad / I. Anagnostakis

"The Raw and the Cooked" : ways of cooking and serving food in Byzantium / I. Anagnostakis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.

ISBN:

9789605277475

9605277476

OCLC:

842267440