HIST 4065 Mediterreanean Foodways

This course examines the Mediterranean World through food traditions with an emphasis on the Italy-Greece region and the sea itself as the most important geographic features. Using foodways, along with historical research, students will come to understand how technology and innovation in the production of food crops, migration patterns, warfare, empire building, the Renaissance era, religion, modernization, weather, and cross-cultural exchanges contributed to today’s unique, and varied, Mediterranean food culture.