Flavours and delights
Subtitle: tastes and pleasures of ancient and Byzantine cuisine
By: texts by Andrew Dalby, Ilias Anagnostakis, Chryssi Bourbou, Johannes Koder, Maria Leontsini ; edited by Ilias Anagnostakis
Contributors: Anagnōstakēs, Ēlias, author, editor; Bourbou, Chryssi, author; Koder, Johannes, author; Leontsinē, Maria, author
Publisher: Armos Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Athens; Thessaloniki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9789605277475
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Food habits; Cooking; Social life and customs; History; Civilization
Other titles: Tastes and pleasures of ancient and Byzantine cuisine; Flavours & delights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: The flavours of Classical Greece / A. Dalby; title: Makedonisi(on). Parsley, the Macedonian herb / I. Anagnostakis; title: Byzantine diet and cuisine in between ancient and modern gastronomy / I. Anagnostakis; title: All in the cooking pot. Advances in the study of Byzantine diet / C. Bourbou; title: Eating flowers / I. Anagnostakis; title: Byzantine aphrodisiacs / I. Anagnostakis; title: Byzantine delicacies / I. Anagnostakis; title: Liutprand of Cremona. A critical guest at the Byzantine emperor's table / J. Kroder; title: Timarion / I. Anagnostakis; title: Hens, cockerels and other choice fowl. Everyday food and gastronomic pretensions in Byzantium / M. Leontsini; title: Pallikaria of lentils. The "brave boys" of beans / I. Anagnostakis; title: Everyday food in the Middle Byzantine period / J. Koder; title: Dining with foreigners / I. Anagnostakis; title: Food for Saints / I. Anagnostakis; title: The emperor's salad / I. Anagnostakis; title: "The Raw and the Cooked" : ways of cooking and serving food in Byzantium / I. Anagnostakis.