[Sca-cooks] Baudolino and Byzantine cookery

[Johnna Holloway]

It's out---


      Flavours of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire


        by Andrew Dalby

Perhaps better known for his studies of culinary history
in the Greek and Roman worlds, Andrew Dalby samples
the tastes of the court of the eastern Roman empire at Constantinople.
Based largely on literary and technical texts he explores the foods,
tastes and smells of Constantinople from its markets to the
dining table of the emperor. He describes the extravagance of
court feasting, raw materials, seasonal shifts in diet, medical
thoughts on diet and includes four new translations of Byzantine
Greek texts on diet and a section on cooking instructions and recipes.
268p, b/w illus (Prospect Books 2003)

ISBN 1903018145. Hardback. Price US $45.00

Oxbow has it--- 
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/38697//Location/DBBC\

It's worth seeking out if you deal in that area.

Johnnae

Patrick Levesque wrote:

>Isn't another book on Byzantine cookery due to be published shortly?
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>P.S. (Bibliography or not, it is nonetheless a darn good book!)
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