[Sca-cooks] Re: MEDIEVAL Near Eastern Food

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I don't know.  Do I?  Were the foods adopted that quickly?
Is there a good solid source for pre-1600 Ottoman Empire cuisine?
I can't accept "tradition" as documentation, I want book-larnin'!

Selene

johnna holloway wrote:

> Wouldn't this be mostly the foods of the Ottoman
> Empire? Or do you want non-Ottoman Greek foods?
>
> Johnnae
>
> Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> 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.
> >