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Greek Culinary History & Cooking Adventures

two figurines sitting on top of a stone slab with one holding the other's hand

Two young women playing knucklebones Greek 330-300 BCE said to be from Capua, Italy

Two young women playing knucklebones Greek 330-300 BCE said to be from Capua, Italy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

a statue of a woman holding a baby in her arms, on a gray background

Terracotta group of two girls playing a game known as ephedrismos | Greek, Corinthian | Hellenistic | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two girls playing a game known as ephedrismos [Greek, Corinthian] (07.286.4) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brazier A portable clay brazier for cooking and heating interior spaces. Mid-2nd - early 1st cent. BC. Acropolis Museum.

OGGETTISTICA ROMANA

OBJETOS DE ROMANO | romanoimpero.com

two clay pots sitting on top of white pedestals

Bronze Age Civilization

Minoan wine press. Arch. Museum of Herakleion, Crete.

there are many vases and other items on display

Vessels for cooking and serving food, 4th c. B.C. - 3rd c. A.D., Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011

Vessels for cooking and serving food, 4th c. B.C. - 3rd c. A.D., Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece

a green vase sitting on top of a white shelf

Ancient Agora Museum (Athens)

Byzantine chafing dish with cut-work decoration, dating from the 10th/11th century Ancient Agora Museum (Athens)

an old teapot sitting on top of a wooden box next to another clay pot

Archaeological Museum of Dion

the grill is made out of bricks and stones, with meat on skewers

Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics

The Mycenaeans more than 3,000 years ago, used portable grill pits to make souvlaki and non-stick pans to make bread, new cooking experiments suggest.

a clay pot with holes in it sitting on top of a shelf next to a yellow wall

Primitive Kitchen

Clay Pot Cooking

Antique Stoneware Crocks

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Ancient Greek brazier and casserole, 6th/4th century BC, exhibited in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus

an old clay figurine with people and animals on it's base in front of a white background

Hellenismo

Scene in a bakery. A cycle of women at work, one is holding small breads, two others are kneading, another is occupied with the oven fire. (Clay group from an unknown Argive workshop, 530-520 BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum)

an old fashioned stove with pots and pans on it

Greece - Archaeological Museum of Delos

Greece - Archaeological Museum of Delos | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

an old clay bowl sitting on top of a black surface next to a measuring tape

11th Century Greek cook pot