Food in the Ancient World
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Cooks and the Ancient Greeks
No cook book from the ancient greek wall survived, just tiny fragments or a recipe here and there. It tells us something that these books haven't survived at all. I guess it was just a sub category of medical writing. Food is med and for your well being as well, food is considered something that you would use to keep yourself healthy. But also how to treat ailments. So yer food stafs and dises were seen in the same way as simple and compound drugs. They were classified in accordance to the theory of the four humors,. Yher food had to be judged and balanced for their effects on the bodily humors. And according to individual persons, constitution.
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