SC - Re: Pennsic Tales

[Par Leijonhufvud]

Talking about cuttlefish, I came across this interesting news item on the
BBC website today - they are describing a new restaurant in Athens that aims
to serve only classical Greek food:

"After two years of research, the chefs at the Archaion Gefsis (Ancient
Tastes) restaurant say they have managed to reconstruct some of the most
popular recipes of two and a half millennia ago in Athens.

Their menu of classical times offers dishes like pork, seared in honey and
vinegar - a meal written about by Aristophenes.

There is also cuttlefish, grilled in its own ink with pine nuts, and, a
favourite then and now, barbecued goat.

The restaurant's joint owner, Suli Adamis, who researched the recipes, said:
"Here you find no sugar, no rice, no tomato, nothing of all this.

"No ingredient that they couldn't use at that time."

The whole article can be found at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_886000/886674.stm

Nanna