B - 2 : Vertical BBQ
Are you as much a fan of Shawarma as I am? Good, lean meat with some pickled vegetables in on open sandwich? It is the only fast food I...
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hbanziger
Jul 24, 20182 min read
B - 4 : Meze versus Turkish Delights
My intuition yesterday that Turkish Cuisine must have integrated dishes and recipes from all over the Middle East is probably correct....
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hbanziger
Jul 23, 20182 min read
B - 5 : What is Turkish Cuisine?
Am very happy to confirm that our fabulous Turkish chef from last year will be with us again - as actually most of last year’s crew. To...
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hbanziger
Jul 12, 20182 min read
B - 14 : Roman Drinking Habits and the Last Supper
Do you remember my previous blog about the Roman fondness for wine? The upper class loved it for entertaining and their lavish banquets...
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hbanziger
Jul 4, 20182 min read
B - 23 : Garum - A Live Experiment on Carpe Diem V
Most of you may not have heard of Garum, the fermented fish sauce Romans used as condiment. The Roman diet was not based on barley, but...
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hbanziger
Jul 4, 20182 min read
B - 22 : Roman Cuisine
Now that we know that Romans consumed lots of bread, Garum, olive oil and Wine, what else did they eat? We know this rather precisely...
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hbanziger
Jul 3, 20182 min read
B - 24 : HBA's Favorite Drink
One of the delights of our cruise will be the fabulous wines now produced in Turkey. The Rosés start to match the French Rosés of the...
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hbanziger
Jul 1, 20182 min read
B - 26 : The Fruit that gave us the Word for Oil
Yesterday, we discovered what staple food of Persian Sailors and Soldiers. Today, we are going to explore one of their condiments -...
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hbanziger
Jun 30, 20182 min read
B - 27 : The Persians and the Triumph of Barley
Most of us think of Mediterranean food as a vegetable, fish and olive oil-based diet with plenty of fresh fruit and wine. Persian Archers...
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hbanziger
Aug 11, 20171 min read
A + 13 : Meltemi No 2 on the way to Kalimnos
Today would be a long and rocky sailing day. We knew that once we left the wind shield of Naxos the Meltemi would hit us again. Behind...
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hbanziger
Jun 20, 20172 min read
A - 4 : Why we get to eat our Pyramid
When having Lebanese mezze with my colleagues in the Marush on Edgware Road one day, I did not occur to me that I would be sitting in...
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hbanziger
Jun 12, 20172 min read
A - 11 : Nutmeg
We are approaching Departure Day (Abfahrtstag) minus 11 (A - 11). A good reason to start making you familiar with some of the spices we...
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