Milk and Dairy Products in the Medicine and Culinary Art of Antiquity and Early Byzantium (1 st -7 th Centuries AD) (original) (raw)

The present publication is the result of research into the diets, dietetics, pharmacology and gastronomy of antiquity and early Byzantium, based prevailingly on Greek medical treatises composed during the period from the 1st to the 7th c. AD. It is a broad subject, and while in this volume the focus is on milk and milk-based products, the research should be viewed through the context of our previous undertakings and is an addition to our studies into cereals, legumes, vegetables, meat and animal products.