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.
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: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781838600365 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 09/17/2019 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 272 |
Sales rank: | 994,376 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d) |