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.

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.

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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Dangerous Tastes

Dangerous Tastes
Title Dangerous Tastes PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 220
Release 2000
Genre Cooking
ISBN 9780520236745

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"Dangerous Tastes offers a fresh perspective on these exotic substances and the roles they have played over the centuries. The author shows how each region became part of a worldwide network of trade - with local consequences ranging from disaster to triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

The Breakfast Book

The Breakfast Book
Title The Breakfast Book PDF eBook
Author Andrew Dalby
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 234
Release 2013-06-01
Genre Cooking
ISBN 1780231210

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You’ve heard it from doctors, nutritionists, and your mom: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s also one of the most diverse, varying greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to chow down on eggs, cereal, and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and New Zealanders enjoy porridge. But while we know bacon and sausage links belong alongside pancakes and waffles in the early morning hours, we don’t know how breakfast came to be. Taking a multifaceted approach to the story of the morning meal, The Breakfast Book collects narratives of breakfast in an attempt to pin down the mottled history of eating in the A.M. In search of what people have thought and written—and tasted—about breakfast, Andrew Dalby traces the meal’s origins back to the Neolithic revolution. He follows the trail of toast crumbs from the ancient Near East and classical Greece to modern Europe and across the globe, rediscovering stories of breakfast in three thousand years of fiction, memoirs, and art. Using a multitude of entertaining breakfast facts, anecdotes, and images, he reveals why breakfast is so often the backdrop for unexpected meetings, why so many people eat breakfast out, and why this often silent meal is also so reassuring. Featuring a selection of historic and contemporary breakfast recipes from around the world, The Breakfast Book is the first book to explore the history of this inimitable meal and will make an ideal morning companion to crumpets, deviled kidneys, and spanakopita alike.

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium
Title Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Kallirroe Linardou
Publisher Routledge
Pages 294
Release 2016-12-05
Genre History
ISBN 1351942077

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This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how others - including, surprisingly, the Chinese - viewed it. Some consider the protocols of eating in a monastery, of dining in the palace, or of roughing it on a picnic or military campaign; others examine what serving dishes and utensils were in use in the dining room and how this changed over time. Throughout, the terminology of eating - and especially some of the more problematic terms - is explored. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held at the University of Birmingham under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, a fitting tribute for the man who first told the world about Byzantine agricultural implements.