My new baby, patiently waiting for me. My baby is a replica of a5th century pnigeus, a portable earthenware oven. Its name comes from the verb πνίγω, to choke, strangle. Hippo, a presocratic Greek philosopher, said that the heavens were like the dome of…
CHRISTMAS BREAD
Christmas breads from Mani Greek Christmas breads, known as Christopsoma (Christ’s breads) appear to have their origin in the ancient Greek festive breads and bloodless sacrifices that were given to the gods to earn their favor. They are made the…
Ovens
And from a peculiar way of baking or roasting it, there is a loaf called ipnites (or the oven loaf) which Timocles mentions in his Sham Robbers, where he says — And seeing there a tray before me full of…