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Tastes of Byzantium - The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire (Paperback)
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Tastes of Byzantium - The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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