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This phrase-book, incidentally, is one of a series of three glossaries resulting from my exploration of ancient gastronomic pleasures. After browsing through it, any reader will have a clearer idea of how food was talked about, classified, bought, sold, cooked and enjoyed in Constantinople. So this phrase-book is not intended for time-travellers alone: it will help all those who are interested in Byzantine history. The few existing Greek dictionaries that focus on Byzantine terminology tend to slip out of focus when they approach a technical field such as food: they contain some serious misunderstandings. The first time or that was not clear till now. There is also a lot that is gathered in this phrase-book for It incorporates a fair proportion of material that had been collected by the great scholars who worked on the vocabulary of Byzantine life - giants such as du Cange, Korais and Koukoules. Many of these are translated, or referred to, in the earlier part of this book. The phrase-book of Byzantine food, which forms chapter 8, is based directly on the texts. pharmacology, dietetics), largely leaving aside documents such as those that lay down the rules of daily life for the inmates of monasteries, and, in so doing, tell us what they ate or were supposed to eat. history, poetry, letters) and technical texts (e.g. As one example, this book draws chiefly on literary works (e.g.
There is much more information waiting to be gathered and used. Throughout, other sources help to fill out the picture, supplying a social context, practical details and occasionally even recipes. This book includes new translations of four short Byzantine Greek texts on aspects of diet. There is no medieval encyclopaedia of social history that gathers the literary source materials as does Athenaeus's Deipnosophists for classical Greece.
There is no recipe book like the Latin Apicius. It is also a reply to the readers of Siren feasts who were intrigued by what was said there of Byzantine food and wine and asked if any more was known. There has never been a book in English about the foods and wines of the Byzantine Empire. The Eight Flavours Categories ofFoods Humoral and Dietary Qualities ofFoods A Dietary Calendar Instructions and RecipesĪ Phrase-Book of Byzantine Foods and Aromas Bibliography Water and Wine, Monks and Travellers Rulers of the World The Texts
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ISBN: 978 1 84885 165 8 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Printed and bound in India by Thomson Press India Ltd Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published in 2010 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 First published in 2003 by Prospect Books Copyright © 2003, 2010 Andrew Dalby The right of Andrew Dalby to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Tastes of Byzantium The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire He is also the author of The Classical Cookbook and Empire of Pleasures as well as biographies of Bacchus and Venus. Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby’s first food book, won the Runciman Award and his second, Dangerous Tastes, won the Guild of Food Writers Food Book of the Year in 2001. Andrew Dalby is a classical scholar, historian, linguist and translator most well known for his books on the history of food, in particular the Greek and Roman empires.
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