Cultural and historical curiosities

“From the beginning of the third millennium B.C. in Sumer, or later, during the second millennium B.C. in other regions of Mesopotamia and Syria, numerous texts prove the existence of banquets with precise rituals. […] There is olive oil, always present in all banquets; its purpose is not to dress dishes, but to render the guests’ hair shiny! The oil is often perfumed, hence, more appreciated […]” (p. 33)

 

FLANDRIN, J-L, MONTANARI, M. História da alimentação. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 1998.

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