Between Rome and Byzantium The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Political Culture.Between Rome And Byzantium The Golden Age Of The Grand Duchy Of Lithuania's Political Culture S C) In 2013, many newspapers and magazines featured articles about the seventy-fifth anniversary of the broadcast.Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire.
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.
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. 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. Tauris | 2010 | 272 pages | English | PDFįor 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: The Cuisine of a Legendary EmpireĪndrew Dalby | I.