[Sca-cooks] MEDIEVAL Near Eastern Food

[Stefan li Rous]

Selene C. asked:
> 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?
When I've asked here previously about Greek food, I was told to check
out Byzantine food.
So, you might check this file in the FOOD-BT-REGION section in the
Florilegium:
fd-Byzantine-msg  (36K)  2/16/03    Food of medieval Byzantine.
References.

These might also be of interest:
fd-Greece-msg     (17K)  1/ 9/02    Food of medieval Greece. references.
fd-Mid-East-msg   (48K)  7/24/02    Period food of the Middle East.
Recipes.
fd-Turkey-msg     (10K)  8/ 1/01    Medieval Turkish food. References.
Recipes.

And in the FOOD section:
grape-leaves-msg  (20K)  6/18/02    Use of grape leaves in cooking.
Sources.

Stefan
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