TY - BOOK ID - 2584354 TI - Siren feasts : a history of food and gastronomy in Greece PY - 1996 SN - 0415116201 9780415116206 0415156572 9780415156578 PB - London: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Cooking, Greek KW - Food habits KW - Gastronomy KW - Cuisine grecque KW - Habitudes alimentaires KW - Gastronomie KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Cooking [Greek ] KW - Greece KW - Cooking KW - Feeding Behavior KW - Diet Habits KW - Eating Habits KW - Dietary Habits KW - Eating Behavior KW - Feeding Patterns KW - Feeding-Related Behavior KW - Food Habits KW - Behavior, Eating KW - Behavior, Feeding KW - Behavior, Feeding-Related KW - Diet Habit KW - Dietary Habit KW - Eating Behaviors KW - Eating Habit KW - Feeding Behaviors KW - Feeding Pattern KW - Feeding Related Behavior KW - Feeding-Related Behaviors KW - Food Habit KW - Habit, Diet KW - Habit, Dietary KW - Habit, Eating KW - Habit, Food KW - Habits, Diet KW - Pattern, Feeding KW - Nutrition Disorders KW - Eating KW - Food customs KW - Foodways KW - Human beings KW - Habit KW - Manners and customs KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Oral habits KW - Cookery, Greek KW - Greek cooking KW - history KW - History. KW - Grèce ancienne KW - Alimentation KW - Antiquité KW - Grèce UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2584354 AB - Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil--four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore. ER -