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Greek diet
Other Titles: From ancient symposia to current food consumption patterns
Authors: Matala, Antonia
Reviewer: Giannakoulia, Maria
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY OF MATERIAL CULTURE
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE > CULTURAL HERITAGE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES
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Abstract:
This chapter focuses on Greek food culture by examining how the diet followed in Greek-populated regions has changed through time. By reviewing the meal practices that prevailed in classical antiquity as well as, in the medieval-byzantine era, the processes which led to traditional Greek eating habits are discussed. The frugality that largely prevailed Sea in the early twentieth century in the continental and insular regions surrounding the Aegean served as the foundation of a healthy eating model, the Mediterranean Diet. The dietary variability within the Greek-speaking world is examined with the aid of a set of unique data derived from a nineteenth-century nautical log. The chapter also presents original data on the severe famine experienced by the inhabitants of Athens during the German occupation in 1941-1942. Nevertheless, in the twenty-first century, Greek society has largely abandoned most of the traditional norms of food consumption while the value of dietary moderation has given place to the notions of abundance on the one hand, and dietary self-control, on the other.
Table of Contents:
6.1. Ancient origins of the Greek food culture
6.1.1 Meals in ancient Greece
6.1.2. Everyday food in ancient Greece
6. 1.3. The role of wine and wine-drinking in ancient Greece
6.1.4. Concepts of ancient Greek dietetics
6.2. Diet in Greece during Medieval times
6.2.1. Food of the rich and food of the poor in Medieval Greece
6.2.2. Culinary novelties in Byzantium
6.3. Food culture in modern Greece
6.3.1. Traditional Greek diet
6.3.2. Nutritional continuity and non-continuity within Greek cultures
6.3.3. Diet in Greece in the 21st century
6.4. Case study. The great famine during the German occupation
6.4.1. The famine of the winter1941-42
6.4.2. Nutrition during the 1941-42 famine
6.4.3. Consequences of the Greek famine on health and nutrition
6.4.4. Survival methods during the Greek famine
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Linguistic Editors: Xifara, Foteini
Graphic Editors: Kapantoni, Kleio
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3806
Bibliographic Reference: Matala, A. (2015). Greek diet [Chapter]. In Matala, A., & Grivetti, L. 2015. Food and Culture [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/3806
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Food and Culture
Number of pages 26
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions