[Sca-cooks]Olives was Apicius birds stuff with olives

[Johnna Holloway]

You might want to look at--
Olives : the life and lore of a noble fruit / Mort Rosenblum.
1st ed.
New York : North Point Press, 1996.
316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Like I said the litertaure is vast, especially when one also moves into
oil production and trade. For example--
This book discusses olives in ancient Greece--
Le pain et l'huile dans la Grèce antique : de l'araire au moulin / 
Marie-Claire Amouretti.
Paris : Belles Lettres, 1986.
322 p., 41 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Johnnae

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Those olive books you mention may or may not be of much use on whether 
> olives in the Classical world were used unprocessed or what their 
> recipes meant by "fresh". If the "fresh" olives leave a bitter taste, 
> I could see where they might still be used. But if they are inedible, 
> that could be different. I could see where they might be used in 
> stuffing a chicken, even if inedible, and still not make the chicken 
> inedible since they are being removed and discarded. Comments anyone? 
> Perhaps its time to go back and review the comments in my olives-msg 
> file. :-)
>