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Volume 13, Issue 1-3
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Modern scholarship often claims that ancient Greeks possessed “haute cuisine”. A survey of the vocabulary used in literature from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic eras suggests that cooking was a marginal subject. Despite this, literary genres such as philosophy and comedy give the impression that cuisine had some importance in Greece. But one has to admit that there is a discrepancy between descriptions of Greek cuisine and reality. “Cookery books” are mentioned in Greek literature but often seem to be linked to a literature of entertainment. There is very little evidence of actual “cookbooks” of the kind we might think of as such in ancient Greece.

Abstract

Plusieurs auteurs modernes considèrent que les Grecs étaient dépositaires d’une haute gastronomie. Un sondage du vocabulaire utilisé dans la littérature grecque de l’époque archaïque à la haute époque hellénistique indique pourtant que la gastronomie est un sujet marginal. Des genres littéraires comme la philosophie et la comédie donnent parfois l’impression que la cuisine avait une certaine importance. Cependant, force est de constater qu’il existe un fossé entre les représentations et les . Le mot “livres de cuisine” apparaît dans la littérature antique, mais il s’agit souvent d’une littérature de divertissement. Peu d’indices semblent indiquer qu’il s’agissait de livres de recettes comme nous pouvons les concevoir de nos jours.

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