History of Greek Food

 
“Geoponica” lists various methods for curing olives…  My second olive -experiment was olives preserved in honey… in two types of honey, actually. 1 kilo of almost ripe olives was cured in thyme honey and 400 grams were stored  in  ”bitter” monofloral honey of strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo).
No aromatic seeds and leaves were added… but yes, I cut the olives around with a razor blade, sprinkled the same fine salt over [...]

 
Geoponica* make it clear that this should be the best compound of olives.
So, I followed the instructions and I used 2 kilos of large ripe olives gathered with the hand.
I cut them around with a razor blade (no, i didn’t use a sharp reed), threw them into a clay pot and sprinkled very fine salt [...]

 
Fire  has a major role in the process of human evolution, development of language, socialization, technologies. Civilization would not be possible without fire.  And matches  made much easier its  lighting.
 
 

Salt shaped civilization from the very beginning.  It is so essential to the humans that did conciderably influence the history of mankind. 
 
 

The history of sugar is linked with  ruthless profiteering, colonial ambitions, human labor and  tragedy. It was once a medicine, [...]