Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyBloomsbury Academic, 26. 10. 2000. - 285 страница A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... Europe , where people eventually consumed it in great quantities . The Ethiopian legend of Kaldi has paral- lels in an Arabian legend of coffee . In the lat- ter , Sheik Omar discovered coffee by chance while he was in the Arabian ...
... Europe , where people eventually consumed it in great quantities . The Ethiopian legend of Kaldi has paral- lels in an Arabian legend of coffee . In the lat- ter , Sheik Omar discovered coffee by chance while he was in the Arabian ...
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... Europe long ago , and it appears that the Europeans didn't be- gin to cultivate them before the sixteenth cen- tury . If the Greeks and Romans knew of them , they left nothing in their literature to indicate it . Of course , they had so ...
... Europe long ago , and it appears that the Europeans didn't be- gin to cultivate them before the sixteenth cen- tury . If the Greeks and Romans knew of them , they left nothing in their literature to indicate it . Of course , they had so ...
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... Europe . The Spaniards encountered them first in the New World , and it took a long time for people of the Old World to accept them as nourishing foods . The people of Europe knew that night- shades had a long history steeped in magic ...
... Europe . The Spaniards encountered them first in the New World , and it took a long time for people of the Old World to accept them as nourishing foods . The people of Europe knew that night- shades had a long history steeped in magic ...
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