[Sca-cooks] Another "rotten meat" article...

[margaret]

I've never heard of "miliacita" and I'm a little suspicious of the liguistic
construction of the word.  I would check with a good Greek dictionary or a
Greek linguist, if one is available.

It may be they are referring to a millet cake ("miliaceum" being the species
name for millet, derived from the Latin, "milium").  Or it may be a bad
reference to "melitate," a Greek honey bread.

I suspect "plankuntos" is probably an unleavened flatbread ("maza") of
barley on which "opson" (modernly meaning fish but anciently meaning any
food other than bread, according to Toussaint-Samat) was served.  If so, it
may be similar to the recipe for barley bread in the Sumerian hymn to
Ninkasa.

Bear

>Already on the docket.  Associate Producer wants demos of "
>Plankuntos(PLANK-UNE-TOCE) and Miliacita(MILL-EE-YAH-CHEE-TAH) for
>Pizza. "  The former is Ancient Greek stuff-on-flatbread [actual recipes
>do not seem to exist but we can postulate a reasonable one], I have not
>yet figured out the latter.  If anyone here can enlighten me on
>Miliacita, I would be much obliged.
>
>Sel.