Ancient Greek Cuisine
General Information
Ancient Greek Historical Periods
Ancient Greek Kitchen & Cooking
Deipnon (Ancient Greek Dinner)
Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities entry for "Cena" (main meal)
Plakous, pelanos & other ‘cakes’ of the Hellenic Tradition
Recipes
Recipes from Orestis Davias (Taste magazine)
Recipes from The Classical Cookbook by Andrew Dalby & Sally Grainger
Plakous (Greek cheese & honey desserts)
Plakous: Honey Nut Cake (Chrysippus of Tyana)
Enkris (Honey Cakes)
Thrion (Cheese Stuffed Fig Leaf)
Cheese & Sesame Balls (Globi)
Kykeon (Barley water)
Honey & Sesame Fritters (Teganitai from the Greek Physician Galinos (Galen))
Staitites (fried dough topped w/ cheese, honey, sesame seeds)
Literary References
Ancient Greek Recipe & Food Sources
Greek Classical Period (c. 500 – 323 BC)
Philoxenus - lived around 400 BC
Archestratus - lived around 350 BC.
Archestratus excepts from The Deipnosophists - 62 fragments, from his ‘Hedypatheia‘ (meaning “Pleasant Living” or “Life of Luxury”), recorded by Athenaeus in Deipnosophists (early 3rd century AD work)
The Hellenistic period (323–146 BC)
Cato Exerpts from On Agriculture (w/ recipes) (234–149 BC)
Roman Conquest of Greece: 146 BC
3rd-century AD Greek work by Athenaeus:
The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus (late 2nd century AD to early 3rd century AD)
