Philia (deep friendship) : Its objects range from people to drink, food e.g. dried figs (Aristophanes, Peace, 634) and concepts such as peace. It is the most general word for love and friendship. Pothos is ‘an intense nostalgic longing for someone…
FISH SOUP FOR THOUGHT
Behind this fish -soup there is a long history of fear and courage. Because, in the ancient thought the sea was a hostile, lonely world with sea monsters and fishes which were frightening to humans…. the only animal eaten in eastern Mediterranean…
MAGEIROS, The sacrifice & the cuisine.
“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…
NOTHING DIFFICULT ABOUT HYDROMELI. (Except that you have to wait more than a year to taste it.)
But yesterday I finally opened a bottle of my own hydromeli. The drink which was called hydromeli (water- honey) by the Greeks and aquamulsum by the Romans is found in many cultures throughout history, and is also known as…