1 st SYMPOSIUM OF GREEK GASTRONOMY Karanou (Chania / Crete) July 16-17, 2011 Founded and Organized by Mariana Kavroulaki in conjuction with the Historical, Folkore and Archaeological Society of Crete (ILAEK) CALL FOR PAPERS Possibilities for papers include: ~…
Egkrides, plakountes, 8 white and 8 black breads. Manufacture and use of dough in Classical Athens.
In Plato’s (c. 400 B.C.) ideal state men would lived on a healthy diet eating wholemeal barley or wheat bread and galettes. Socrates, however, suggested that this meant the whole population would be living on pig-food. The truth is that in those days, Athenians featured barley cakes…