[Sca-cooks] Tastes of Byzantium by Andrew Dalby

[Volker Bach]

Does anyone happen to know hoiw much it differs from'Flavours of Byzantium'? (Or if at all - some asuthors get away with all but republishing the same book)

It looks good, but I'm leery of getting stung thatway.

Giano



--- Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> schrieb am Sa, 17.4.2010:

> Von: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
> Betreff: [Sca-cooks] Tastes of Byzantium by Andrew Dalby
> An: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Datum: Samstag, 17. April, 2010 15:30 Uhr
> 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
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