Andrew Dalby

Siren Feasts

A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly yet immensely readable, and with comprehensive illustration, Siren Feasts is the first serious social history of Greek food.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9781138140424
• ISBN-10: 1138140422
• Artikelnr.: 71548911

Autorenporträt

Andrew Dalby trained as a classicist and linguist and is now librarian of the London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 THE WAY THESE PEOPLE SACRIFICE Part I The prehistoric Aegean 2
THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS Part II Food and gastronomy of the classical Aegean
3 DIVINE INVENTIONS 4 IN THE FEASTS OF THE LYDIANS 5 SICILIAN TABLES Part
HI Food and gastronomy of the post-classical Aegean 6 LEMONS OF THE
HESPERIDES 17 STRYMONIAN EELS 8 THE IMPERIAL SYNTHESIS Part IV The
Byzantine and later Aegean 9 BISCUITS FROM BYZANTIUM