SC - Byzantine cuisine--sources?

[L. Herr-Gelatt]

Adamantius, You have just been hugged!

Thanks for the ref. I'll try to order it thru my friend, the manager of B
Dalton's (love those employee discounts!) and failing
that, will get 'em thru ILL (love my flatbed scanner, too, and that
"educational purpose" stipulation to the copyright laws). 

It's a bad
thing when you get interested in historical cooking *outside* the SCA.
Modern
People come to you with questions that make you think up new feasts of
ancient delights to feed your friends, and then your life becomes research
hell. I am emphatically obsessed until this one gets cooked and served
byzantine style. So now naturally I have to have all these sources folks
have posted (and by the way they are great...thank-you sooooooooo much).

I promise to get back to you all with recipes and basic meal/cuisine info,
etc. when I have finished. It might be a while. I have a lot on my
backburner at the moment.
Hugs all 'round

Aoife


Dame Aoife Finn
Barony of Endless Hills
(N.E. Penna, USA)
Aethelmearc





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> From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
> To: LHG, JRG <liontamr at ptd.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - Byzantine cuisine--sources?
> Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 10:35 AM
> 
> "L. Herr-Gelatt" wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > I am assisting in working on a project (a real-world historic christian
> > cultures lesson-plan project for adults and teenagers for a local
Russian
> > Orthodox Monastary school called St Tikhon's, here in NE PA, USA in a
> > little town called South Caanan) about the culture of Byzantium, and
have
> > been asked to provide some information about Byzantine food,
culminating
> > with some sort of recipe or meal information. Any references will be
> > helpful. I have begun the reference project, but have a long ways to go
> > yet. Information seems to be rather rare about food in Byzantium thus
far.
> > 
> > So the question is this: Does ayone recall sources that mention food or
> > show pictures of eating, farming, feasting or cooking in Byzantium,
even if
> > only briefly? I can get almost anything through ILL, provided I know
what
> > to look for. I will shortly be searching at the Library of Congress
> > web-site. I have already begun with J. J. Norwich's 'A Short History of
> > Byzantium' (nothing except photos of  a Byzantine Emperor in a fresco
> > surrounded by flockes of sheep) and a neat book called  'Medieval
> > Queenship', which has a paper on a Byzantine Queen (called herself
"Emperor
> > Irene")  but also no food information except that she distributed food
and
> > coins to the public as a way of ensuring her popularity while trying to
> > influence church policy by actually attending church policy meetings
> > --unheard of for a woman of the day!
> > 
> > Byzantium would have been heavily influenced by Spainish and Arabic
food
> > culture. Being largely a Christian state located on the frontier of
Muslim
> > territory (alcohol and pork allowed), this could result in some rather
> > unique foodstuffs, so I hesitate to make assumptions based on
neighboring
> > cultures. I would love to correspond with anyone who has done some
research
> > into this already or has a few ideas about what the food culture may
have
> > been like.
> 
> Ooh! Oooh! I know this one! Amazon is selling a semi-new (1996?)
> translation of Anthimus' letter to Theodoric of the Franks, translated
> and edited by Mark Grant. It has recipes. It has tons of medical advice.
> If need be, and if there's time, but not time to obtain a copy for you,
> I might be able to get some pages scanned in...
> 
> Howzzat???
> 
> More later; am installing shelves with one hand, installing a new CD-ROM
> burner with another hand, dealing with a sick kid doing a wonderful
> impersonation of a Mexican jumping bean with a third hand, and doing
> e-mail with a fourth. I'm supposed to also be cleaning up Ground Zero
> and cooking for dinner guests tonight, but I only have four hands,
okay???
> 
> Happy Holidays!!! 
> 
> A. (the other "A.", the one who's not you ;  )     )
> -- 
> Phil & Susan Troy
> 
> troy at asan.com
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