[Sca-cooks] Tastes of Byzantium by Andrew Dalby

[Johnna Holloway]

While browsing titles I came across this new book:

Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire (Paperback)
by Andrew Dalby (Author) 288 pages

  I B Tauris & Co Ltd ; Being released 30 May 2010 in the United Kingdom
This title will be released on June 22, 2010 in the USA at a cost of  
$25.00
ISBN:  978-1848851658
Book Description from the publisher http://www.ibtauris.com

For centuries the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire  
-- centred on Constantinople -- have captivated the west, although it  
appeared that very little information had been passed down to us.  
Andrew Dalby's Tastes of Byzantium now reveals in astonishing detail,  
for the first time, what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman  
Empire -- and how it was cooked. Fusing the spices of the Romans with  
the seafood and simple local food of the Aegean and Greek world, the  
cuisine of the Byzantines was unique and a precursor to much of the  
food of modern Turkey and Greece. Bringing this vanished cuisine to  
life in vivid and sensual detail, Dalby describes the sights and  
smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces, relates travellers'  
tales and paints a comprehensive picture of the recipes and customs of  
the empire and their relationship to health and the seasons, love and  
medicine. For food-lovers and historians alike, Tastes of Byzantium is  
both essential and riveting -- an extraordinary illumination of  
everyday life in the Byzantine world.

Johnnae