ABSTRACT
From Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium. Copyright © 2007 by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd,
Preliminary remarks
Today we in the western world do not think as much as ancient and medieval societies did about the preservation of food because we are accustomed to refrigeration and have easy access to supermarkets to provide and store our daily products. The long-term preservation of food products in private households is a notion that has disappeared from our consciousness; we just make sure we have enough to eat for a weekend or bank holiday.
