[Sca-cooks] Period Greek Recipes

[Vitaliano Vincenzi]

What gave me the inspiration to start looking was this web site:

http://www.explorecrete.com/cuisine/souvlaki.html

Obviously there isn't much in the line of documentation there, which is 
why there will be a trip to our main library later this week to further 
the research. I was hoping to find a little help here in terms of books 
or resources to look for while I am there.

The addition of the Pita's may be late or post-period, but the web site 
above mentions them and references 'Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, 12, 
516d', which is at the very least a glimmer of hope. Now to just find 
further documentation - looks like book 12, right?

Remember that my feast will be a bit different, because we won't have 
anything from "Europe" in the feast, as is the norm. I am taking a 
little "SCA License" (does that exist) and pretending to send people out 
to find food of other areas. I would still like to have food that WAS 
eaten during SCA Period, even if that food may not have been a staple in 
what we know as Europe. Perhaps I am overstepping my bounds as Feast 
Steward, but everyone I talk to about this seems excited and can't wait 
to partake.

Now I just need to find the time to get all of this research done. :)

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> I'd suspect these are relatively modern additions to the cuisine of  
> Greece, via the Turks. Anthimus was a very early-period Byzantine  
> writing medical advice, some of which took the form of recipes, to  
> the King of the Franks in the 6th century CE. This might reflect some  
> Greek influence (and probably some Frankish, as well). But the whole  
> gamut of meat-on-a-stick dishes is probably derived from nomadic  
> traditions (especially when you consider their prevalence everywhere  
> else East of Greece as far as China, if not beyond), and probably  
> introduced to the Greeks relatively late in SCA period.

-- 
Lord Vitaliano Vincenzi
aka Shane Lambert
http://www.periodfood.blogspot.com
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