Flavours of Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flavours of Byzantium write by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2003. Flavours of Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of the food that was eaten at the court of the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople in the Middle Ages. For centuries it has tempted and fascinated the West, yet very little has been written in English about the foods they ate or the recipes they cooked from. Dalby gives an entertaining account of the dining customs of the Emperors as witnessed by the Greeks and by foreign visitors. He tells of the medical theories that underlay their diet; of their opinions of the raw materials available; and stretches in a calendar of the seasons and how they affected the food on the table. This is underpinned by new translations from the Greek of important medieval treatises on diet, flavors, raw materials and cookery. Andrew Dalby is a classical scholar, food historian and student of languages.
Tastes of Byzantium
Tastes of Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tastes of Byzantium write by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2010-06-15. Tastes of Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the food and eating customs during the Byzantine Empire.
Tastes of Byzantium
Tastes of Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tastes of Byzantium write by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2010-06-30. Tastes of Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first time, what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire - and how it was cooked. Fusing the spices of the Romans with the seafood and simple local food of the Aegean and Greek world, the cuisine of the Byzantines was unique and a precursor to much of the food of modern Turkey and Greece. Bringing this vanished cuisine to life in vivid and sensual detail, Dalby describes the sights and smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces, relates travellers' tales and paints a comprehensive picture of the recipes and customs of the empire and their relationship to health and the seasons, love and medicine. For food-lovers and historians alike, "Tastes of Byzantium" is both essential and riveting - an extraordinary illumination of everyday life in the Byzantine world.
Flavours and Delights
Flavours and Delights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flavours and Delights write by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2013. Flavours and Delights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Feast, Fast or Famine
Feast, Fast or Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feast, Fast or Famine write by Wendy Mayer. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Feast, Fast or Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The theme was food and drink in Byzantium. Published selectively in the present volume, the papers of the conference are augmented by contributions from international scholars. While some papers address the use of food directly (children’s diet, fasting) or tangentially (in love spells), or discuss philosophical approaches towards food (vegetarianism), other papers in this volume examine the topic from another perspective: the role and perception of food and drink – and their consumption – in society. Yet others examine issues of supply (military logistics) and the role it played in shaping Byzantium. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of food, in late antique and Byzantine society, in Byzantine rhetoric, in magic in late antiquity and in the Jews in early Byzantium.
