The nexus of food and diplomacy was a common theme in early modern diplomatic advice literature. The importance of the culinary diplomacy is especially evident in Venice’s mission in the Ottoman capital. ”Marino Cavalli, one of Venice’s most accomplished sixteenth-century ambassadors,…
VASILOPITA, THE NEW YEAR’S PIE
Throughout Greece, breads and pies with a coin inside, have been established as a custom on the first day of the year, in the memory of the following event: In the 4th century, Cappadokia, a Byzantine province in Minor Asia, suffered…