Tastes of Byzantium

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Tauris Parke
ISBN: 9781838600365
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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.

Tastes of Byzantium

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857717316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Flavours of Byzantium

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Prospect Books
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
This is a study of the food that was eaten at the court of the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople in the Middle Ages. For centuries it has tempted and fascinated the West, yet very little has been written in English about the foods they ate or the recipes they cooked from. Dalby gives an entertaining account of the dining customs of the Emperors as witnessed by the Greeks and by foreign visitors. He tells of the medical theories that underlay their diet; of their opinions of the raw materials available; and stretches in a calendar of the seasons and how they affected the food on the table. This is underpinned by new translations from the Greek of important medieval treatises on diet, flavors, raw materials and cookery. Andrew Dalby is a classical scholar, food historian and student of languages.

Tastes of Byzantium

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781848851658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Describes the food and eating customs during the Byzantine Empire.

Flavours and Delights

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789605277475
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description

A Flame In Byzantium

Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466807687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503

Book Description
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's A Flame in Byzantium chronicles Atta Olivia Clemens during the reign of Justinian. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dangerous Tastes

Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236745
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
"Dangerous Tastes offers a fresh perspective on these exotic substances and the roles they have played over the centuries. The author shows how each region became part of a worldwide network of trade - with local consequences ranging from disaster to triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

The Byzantines

Author: Averil Cameron
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405178248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

The sensual icon

Author: Bissera V
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035846
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.

The Sultan of Byzantium

Author: Selcuk Altun
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 1846591503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople in 1453, Emperor Constantine XI was killed, his body never found. Legend has it that he escaped in a Genoese ship, cheating certain death at the hands of the Turks and earning himself the title of Immortal Emperor. Five centuries after his disappearance, three mysterious men contact a young professor living in Istanbul. Members of a secret sect, they have guarded the Immortal Emperor's will for generations. They tell him that he is the next Byzantine emperor and that in order to take possession of his fortune he must carry out his ancestor's last wishes. The professor embarks on a dangerous journey, taking him to the heart of a mystery of epic historical significance. The Sultan of Byzantium is a symbiosis of story and history and a homage to Byzantine civilisation.