[Sca-cooks] Period Greek Foods

[Stefan li Rous]

Tara asked:
> While we're on this topic, it seems like a good time to ask about
> period Greek cooking.  I'm cooking a feast in June for an event with an
> ancient Greek theme.  I've already decided against an ancient Greek
> feast because it limits the ingredients, it would start with a
> sacrifice, and it's not western European middle ages anyway.  So I'm
> thinking of an SCA recreation of a medieval recreation of an ancient
> Greek feast - capture the Greek flavor using ingredients and cooking
> techniques of our time.
>
> Are there any medieval Greek cooking sources?  Traveler's tales?
> Ancient Greek literature available in our period, or European versions
> of Greek legends, that mention food or feast?  Does anyone recall
> dishes dubbed "Greek" in period sources (like the "Saracen" dishes)?

I remember asking about period Greek foods myself. The main answer
I got was that Greece was part of the Byzantine Empire during most
of our period and to check for Byzantine food.

With that in mind, I would check these two files in the FOOD-BY-REGION
section of the Florilegium:
fd-Byzantine-msg  (25K)  5/18/01    Food of medieval Byzantine. References.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/fd-Byzantine-msg.html
fd-Greece-msg     (16K)  4/ 3/01    Food of medieval Greece. references.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/fd-Greece-msg.html

This one in the FOOD section might also be of interest:
grape-leaves-msg  (17K)  7/25/00    Use of grape leaves in cooking. Sources.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/grape-leaves-msg.html
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