Flavours of Byzantium

Flavours of Byzantium
Title Flavours of Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Prospect Books
Pages 280
Release 2003
Genre Cooking
ISBN

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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
Title Tastes of Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 272
Release 2010-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 0857717316

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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
Title Flavours and Delights PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher
Pages 231
Release 2013
Genre Byzantine Empire
ISBN 9789605277475

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Tastes of Byzantium

Tastes of Byzantium
Title Tastes of Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Tauris Parke
Pages 272
Release 2019-06-18
Genre Cooking
ISBN 9781838600365

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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.

Tastes of Byzantium

Tastes of Byzantium
Title Tastes of Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Pages 272
Release 2010-06-15
Genre History
ISBN 9781848851658

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Describes the food and eating customs during the Byzantine Empire.

Food

Food
Title Food PDF eBook
Author Paul Freedman
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 380
Release 2007
Genre Cooking
ISBN 9780520254763

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This richly illustrated book applies the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Freedman gathers essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste.

Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes

Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes
Title Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes PDF eBook
Author Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
Publisher BRILL
Pages 271
Release 2019-11-11
Genre History
ISBN 900441584X

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Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups into the territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the eleventh century, through intersecting stories transmitted in Turkish Muslim warrior epics and dervish vitas, and late Byzantine martyria. It examines the Byzantines’ encounters with the newcomers in a shared story-world, here called “land of Rome,” as well as its perception, changing geopolitical and cultural frontiers, and in relation to these changes, the shifts in identity of the people inhabiting this space. The study highlights the complex relationship between the character of specific places and the cultural identities of the people who inhabited them. See inside the book