I Ate Only Ancient Greek Food for a Week



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The adventurer embarks on yet another historical meal journey, this time spending a week in a world where it is exactly like this one, except everyone wears ancient Greek clothing and eats ancient Greek food.

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Where the Recipes Are From:

-The Classical Cookbook by Sally Grainger and Andrew Dalby
-https://www.academia.edu/1937302/Ancient_Hellenic_recipes
-https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/cook-classical-feast-nine-recipes-ancient-greece-and-rome
-https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/olympicskewers?rq=greek
-https://www.kalofagas.ca/2013/02/13/cream-of-chickpea-soup-with-shrimp-oxymeli/

(BELOW ARE MEAL SELECTION SPOILERS, DONโ€™T READ UNLESS YOUโ€™RE OK WITH THAT)

Day 1:
Chickpeas with cheese (Hellenic Recipes PDF)

Day 2:
Cabbage made the Athenian way (British Museum article)
Olympic marinated skewers (Tasting History article)

Day 3:
Chickpea and prawn stew (Kalofagas article)
Stuffed grape leaves (Hellenic Recipes PDF)

Day 4:
Mystron (Hellenic Recipes PDF)
Honey-glazed prawns (British Museum article)

Day 5:
Nut omelette (Hellenic Recipes PDF)
Baked fish of Archestratus (Hellenic Recipes PDF)

Day 6:
Lentil soup (Hellenic Recipes PDF)

Day 7:
Patina of sole (The Classical Cookbook p. 160)
Honeyed pears (Hellenic Recipes PDF)

Other Text Sources:

Making oxymel:

How To Make An Oxymel

History of citrus:
https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/2186?lang=en

Ancient Greek meal practices:

Ancient Greek Food: Bread, Seafood, Fruits, and More!


https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2019/may/pepper-rome-ancient.html
https://www.colorado.edu/classics/2018/05/23/wining-and-dining-ancient-greece

History of the orange carrot:
https://books.google.nl/books?id=KFQMt1Ww6osC&pg=PA81&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Nuts in ancient Greece:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/mediterranean-nuts-origins-ancient-medicinal-benefits-and-symbolism/8CF105F6FD84DBFA2AF96DED889B227A

Some Other Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykeon

Ancient Recipe: Maza (Ancient Greek, ca. 2nd millennium BCE)

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrot,_Juliana_Anicia_Codex.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_Tanagra,_small_terracotta,_late_4th%E2%80%933rd_c_BC,_Prague_NM-H10_1752,_151097.jpg
Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman%27s_Robe_a_l%27Anglaise_Ensemble_LACMA_M.59.25a-d_(2_of_6).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eleanor_Frances_Dixie_by_Henry_Pickering.jpg

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/155791

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evening_dress_MET_1974.194.5_F.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_van_Rijn,_A_man_in_a_gorget_and_cap,_1626%E2%80%931627.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smock.jpg
MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/05/traditional-costume-of-tatarstan.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_species_of_citrus_fruit_(Citrus_sarcodactylis_Hort._Bog.);_Wellcome_V0042687.jpg
See page for author, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrot,_Juliana_Anicia_Codex.jpg

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248817

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