Smooth and Juicy or Flavours of Byzantium

Smooth and Juicy

Author: Joanna Farrow

This fabulous new book includes everything from energy and health drinks to irresistibly indulgent ones such as Marbled Blueberry Meringue Shake.

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Flavours of Byzantium

Author: Andrew Dalby

By means of translations of original texts on diet and foods and making liberal use of contemporary testimony, Andrew Dalby makes an eloquent case for the sophistication of the cuisine and the wide range of ingredients available to an empire that mesmerized the simple Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land. This is also an authoritative glossary of Greek food words and phrases: a foundation on which future scholars will come to rely.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	7
	An Introduction to Byzantium	11
	Tastes and Smells of the City	33
	Foods and Markets of Constantinople	57
	Water and Wine, Monks and Travellers	83
	Rulers of the World	105
	The Texts: The Eight Flavours	129
	The Texts: Categories of Food	132
	The Texts: Humoral and Dietary Qualities of Foods	147
	The Texts: A Dietary Calender	161
	Instructions and Recipes	171
	A Phrase-Book of Byzantine Foods and Aromas	183
	Bibliography	239
	Index	257