What did the Byzantines eat?

Описание: Welcome everyone! In this video we will uncover the ingredients, flavours, and dining habits that shaped Byzantine (Eastern Roman) food culture, from everyday meals to extravagant feasts.

00:00 - 01:19 Intro
01:20 - 02:31 Cooking & Taverns
02:32 - 04:56 Cereals
04:57 - 05:23 Legumes
05:24 - 6:28 Vegetables
6:29 - 11:57 Meat
11:58 - 15:19 Eggs & Dairy
15:20 - 17:50 Seafood
17:51 - 18:49 Fasting
18:50 - 19:56 Herbs & Spices
19:57 - 21:56 Fruits & Nuts
21:57 - 24:36 Sweets
24:37 - 25:22 Epilogue

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Sources:

Modern Sources:

-Andrew Dalby, 'Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire'
-Chryssi Bourbou, 'All in the cooking pot: Advances in the study of Byzantine diet'
-Maria Leontsini, 'Plakountai, pies and pancakes: festive and daily baked desserts in Byzantium (4th-12th c.)'
-Ilias Anagnostakis & Maria Leontsini, 'Fishing and fish consumption in the Aegean Sea according to the lives of saint, 7th-12th centuries'
-Maria Leontsini, 'Hens, cockerels
and other choice fowl: Everyday food and gastronomic pretensions
in Byzantium'

Medieval Sources:
-Agapius, 'Geoponicon', Venice
-Alexander of Tralles, 'On Fevers', 'Therapeutics'
-Anna Comnena, 'Alexiad'
-Constantine Porphyrogennetus, 'De administrando imperio'
-Constantine Porphyrogennetus, 'On Ceremonies'
-'Geoponica'
-Maurice, 'Stratagems'
-'Prodromic Poems'
-Psellus, 'Chronographia'
-Theodore Ducas, 'Letters'
-Eustathius of Thessalonica, 'Letters'

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