| Author | Władimir Miakiszew |
|---|---|
| Title | “Bread” and “wine” of oversees aboriginal populations as found in European travelers’ accounts from the Age of Exploration |
| Keywords | Chronicle by Marcin Bielski, Age of Exploration, sixteenth-century Polish-Russian translations, exotic plants, bread and wine production |
| Pages | 201-217 |
| Full text | |
| Volume | 35 |
The article discusses descriptions of exotic – from Europeans’ viewpoint – foods in 16th-century travelers’ accounts where they treat such foods as aboriginal „bread and wine”. The descriptions mostly come from the tenth book of Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski dealing with exploration of new territories in America, Southeast Asia, Oceania and Africa. As my analysis reveals, when describing local, rather peculiar or even exotic, varieties of bread and wine, the travelers would rely on own familiar, homeland analogues and largely focus on the specific features and recipes of the products described.