[HN Gopher] Researchers learn about what they ate in medieval Si...
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Researchers learn about what they ate in medieval Sicily from
cooking pots
Author : Vigier
Score : 19 points
Date : 2021-06-12 04:49 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.medievalists.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.medievalists.net)
| mattkrause wrote:
| Original paper (it's open access)
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| New insights into early medieval Islamic cuisine: Organic residue
| analysis of pottery from rural and urban Sicily.
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| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
| e-clinton wrote:
| What did the researchers eat in medieval Sicily?
| SimeVidas wrote:
| I wish the English language had two different "they" words for
| when it's referring to the subject vs. object of the preceding
| sentence. The ambiguity of pronouns is so annoying.
| failwhaleshark wrote:
| The title makes perfect sense: they hopped in their time
| machine, arrived in medieval Sicily, got blitzed, had a feast
| blindfolded, hopped back in their time machine, did some
| archeology to find the cooking pots, and politely asked the
| pots what happened "last night."
|
| What happens in Sicily, stays in Sicily (until dug up).
| hprotagonist wrote:
| go dig up a monastery and see what's on _their_ potsherds.
|
| i'm guessing beer, bread, and cheese.
| failwhaleshark wrote:
| What's a sherd?
|
| And I've never had "beer bread." What does that taste like?
| hprotagonist wrote:
| - an alternative spelling for shard, which is the normal
| spelling in the archaeological context.
| https://www.etymonline.com/word/shard,
| https://www.etymonline.com/word/potsherd
|
| - "beer bread" is the result of lazy phone keyboard typing.
| But also, there is such a thing:
| https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6717/beer-bread-i/ , a
| form of quickbread. The crumb is usually a bit dense but
| it's certainly not bad with stew.
|
| - Bread beer, on the other hand, is called kvass. Though
| very unlikely to have been drunk by medieval Sicilians, it
| tastes pretty good, especially the kind with raisins.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
| failwhaleshark wrote:
| I'm being Sunday funday silly. :D
|
| I'm down to kvetch some kvass. Sounds groovy. Guinness
| are basically loaves of bread in liquid form. Beer
| must've originated in botched breadmaking and some genius
| drank it just to find out what would happen.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| For that informative and utterly humorless answer, I
| believe I love you.
| [deleted]
| _0ffh wrote:
| The possibilities are practically endless!
|
| I can't decide if I want to try bread beer bread first,
| or rather beer bread beer!
|
| Then I suppose I'll move on to beer bread beer bread and
| bread beer bread beer :D
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Confused; did the article end up saying what they ate?
| [deleted]
| flohrian wrote:
| _The results indicate a wide variety of vegetables, fruits,
| beeswax and animal food products, complementing other
| archaeological evidence. The authors highlight some notable
| differences between rural and urban cuisines, including the
| greater frequency of grapes and dairy products in the rural
| site._
| TX0098812 wrote:
| "Islamic cuisine". Interesting choice of words. Does the religion
| prescribe a certain type of cuisine? Not aside from a small
| number of rules about things that are forbidden, afaik.
| mattkrause wrote:
| Foods can be associated with a religious/cultural tradition,
| even without being prescribed or proscribed by it.
|
| A Kosher deli is a good example. Having pastrami, rather than
| ham, is obviously religious, but the fact that it invariably
| comes on rye isn't.
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