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Researchers learn about what they ate in medieval Sicily from cooking pots
- e-clinton 5y agoWhat did the researchers eat in medieval Sicily?
- hprotagonist 5y agogo dig up a monastery and see what’s on their potsherds. i’m guessing beer, bread, and cheese.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoWhat's a sherd? And I've never had "beer bread." What does that taste like?
- hprotagonist 5y ago- 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/shard, https://www.etymonline.com/word/potsherd 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/ 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
- _0ffh 5y agoThe 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
- JasonFruit 5y agoFor that informative and utterly humorless answer, I believe I love you.
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- failwhaleshark 5y agoI'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.
- hprotagonist 5y agocurrent archaeological evidence suggests that bread originated from brewers screwing up the beer, more or less: we have older evidence of (millet) beer than we have of bread.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThe 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).
- SimeVidas 5y agoI 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.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoConfused; did the article end up saying what they ate?
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- flohrian 5y agoThe 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 5y ago"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 5y agoFoods 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.
- TX0098812 5y ago> Foods can be associated with a religious/cultural tradition These may correlate, but are different and not alternative.
- mattkrause 5y agoOriginal paper (it's open access) New insights into early medieval Islamic cuisine: Organic residue analysis of pottery from rural and urban Sicily. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252225 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...