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Highest price on eBay: $34,000 Corning Ware’s Blue Cornflower sets are beloved classics in the vintage kitchenware world, coveted for their durability and iconic design.
Dakos (salad); Stamnagathi (cichorium) salad; Piktí (or Tsiladiá), pork charcuterie; Apáki, smoked pork (or chicken) meat; Paximadi; Kalitsounia; Stafidota, cookies with a stuffing based on raisins
Byzantine cuisine was the continuation of local ancient Greek cuisine, ancient Roman cuisine, and Mediterranean cuisine. Byzantine trading with foreigners brought in grains, sugar, livestock, fruits, vegetables, and spices that would otherwise be limited to specific geographical climates.
Many Greek recipes, especially in the northern parts of the country, [20] [21] [22] use "sweet" spices in combination with meat, for example cinnamon, allspice and cloves in stews. [23] [24] [25] The climate and terrain has tended to favour the breeding of goats and sheep over cattle, and thus beef dishes are uncommon.
Kokoretsi or kokoreç is a dish of the Balkans and Anatolia (Asia Minor), consisting of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal, including sweetbreads, hearts, lungs, or kidneys, and typically grilled; a variant consists of chopped innards cooked on a griddle. The intestines of suckling lambs are preferred.
Meze (also spelled mezze or mezé) (/ ˈ m ɛ z eɪ /, / ˈ m ɛ z ɛ /) is a selection of small dishes served as appetizers in Arabic and West Asian cuisines: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Armenia.
The earliest known Kamares ware pottery was made during the Middle Minoan IA period (c. 2100-1925 BCE). In this era, the style already made use of polychromy. [1] Examples from this period have been found at Mochlos and Vasiliki in eastern Crete, at Patrikies in the Messara Plain, as well as in the West Court of the palace at Knossos.
There is some evidence that women were also potters. Archaeologists seeking to understand the conditions of production have drawn tentative comparisons with aspects of both modern Cretan rural artisans and the better-documented Egyptian and Mesopotamian Bronze Age industries. [4] In Linear B the word for potter is "ke-ra-me-u". [5]