MEDIEVAL Near Eastern Food was Re: [Sca-cooks] The Priest Fainted

[Susan Fox-Davis]

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Many stuffed vegetables appear in the late Ottoman corpus and
> eventually made their way to places like Lebanon, where much of the
> traditional cooking these days reflects Ottoman influence. As far as
> i can tell from my research so far, they didn't really take to
> Ottoman clothing or food until around 100 or 150 years ago.
>
> Unfortunately, the word "traditional" doesn't mean much. It could
> mean "two generations old" (i.e., my granny cooked it this way, so it
> must be old"), although i'm pretty certain imam bayildi is 19th c.
>
> Anahita

OK then.  What I want to find is some good solid sources from the eastern
Mediterranean between the 14th and 17th Centuries, for from Greece from
after Roman times to the 17th.  Are there any such things?  Did the Greeks
just send out for pizza for 1000 years?  What did they all do for food
=before= the relative homogeneity of modern Middle Eastern food?

Selene C.