Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens

MODERN KITCHENS · 042 / 100 Greek literary fruit and nut traditions · Greek-speaking Mediterranean · Classical through Roman-era Greek food references, approximately 500 BCE–250 CE Evidence: historically informed adaptation. The historical evidence and modern cooking choices are distinguished below. Jump to recipe Generated illustration of this modern adaptation; not historical evidence. Fruit and nuts are more than incidental decorations in ancient food texts. Athenaeus’s discussion of nuts preserves Greek references to walnuts, while his sweet-food passages place honey in the culinary conversation. Neither gives us this exact stuffed-apple dessert. The filling and baking directions are our own. The broad setting is the Greek-speaking Mediterranean, with earlier quotations collected around 200 CE. A modern dessert apple is not interchangeable with every fruit translated as an ancient apple, and walnut varieties have changed too. Naming those limits makes a simple dessert more usefu...