“Mageiros” in Greek means cook (the) and “mageirevo” I cook. One of earliest attestations of the word is a dedicative inscription by a mageiros in Epidavros (early 5th century, IG, IV2, I.144). However, the mageiros was not primarily a cook but…
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GRIND MILL, GRIND
Who are these women? Women who grind, singing the monotonous strain: ‘alei, myla, alei… grind, mill, grind even Pittacus ground great Mytilene’s king…” (1) Who are these women who knead… Tanagra, 500-475 a. C. National Archaeological Museum of Athens, n°27…
THE ORCHARD OF ALCINOOUS”
“Ulysses at the court of Alcinous”, Hayez Fr. (1813-5) ” But without the courtyard, hard by the door, is a great orchard of four acres, and a hedge runs about it on either side. Therein grow trees, tall and luxuriant, pears…
PAPARA (Παπάρα)
Hard, old bread combined with milk or other liquid (sauce, olive oil, butter, stock, wine etc.) is found for centuries all over Mediterranean as a way of transforming leftovers into a dish in its own right. The ancient Greeks gave…