Dear all,
The Historical, Folklore & Archaeological Society of Crete and the Greek Culinary History & Cooking Adventures are organizing the 4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy in Caranou /Chania/Crete, titled "Known, Forgotten and Lost Grains'' (July, 29-30)
Call for Papers
The 2017 symposium theme offers a broad canvas for papers on grains, from local to global, from ancient to modern. Submissions are welcome on, but not limited to, topics such as:
- Early human grain consumption
- History of floury grains
- Bread, beer and other uses of grains
- Forgotten and lost grain crops
- Cultivation, grain processing, bread – making and gender
- Grain choices and social class
- Cultural differences in processing and consumption
- Grains, bread, feast and famine
- Cereal grains and politics
- Grain prices: scarcity and abundance
- Grain trade and market efficiency
- Grains, bread, city and country connections
- History of technology, environmental history and grains
- How grains became a standardized commodity
- Trends in grain / bread consumption through history
- Leavened and unleavened: Christian identity and self-definition
- Grains, farming, eating and their influence on art and literature
For more details please visit the website https://greekgastronomy.wordpress.com
Mariana Kavroulaki
Experimental Archaeologist-Food Historian
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Founder & Co-organizer
of the Symposia of Greek Gastronomy
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tel. +30-6907552349
fax: 28210-31518
fax: 28210-31518