Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk

Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk by wirrbel on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:21PM (#17220880)

In turkish cuisine, butter and olive oil are both used, depending on the dish. I always found that fascinating because it goes against the stereotype of a olive-oil-based mediteranean diet.

As a person from southern germany, I always use clarified butter for frying meat (unless I explicitly follow a recipe that calls for oil). Whenever I am in parts of the world for some time that don't feature it as a product in the dairy section of the supermarket, I go to an indian store and buy some ghee.

I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of populations always also used butter if they had dairy. It may not always be the prestigious choice, but I suspect no one let it go to waste.

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk by makmanalp on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:35PM (#17220985)

> I always found that fascinating because it goes against the stereotype of a olive-oil-based mediteranean diet

That might have a lot to do with the hugely diverse cultural influences in the region over the centuries though

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk by wirrbel on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:54PM (#17232351)

also the turks / selcuks being a pastoral people when migrating to anatolia. Although seldom in the 21st century, there are still some people in anatolia leading half-nomadic lives (at least that is what I was told on my last vacation in Antalya).

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk by makmanalp on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:28AM (#17237906)

Definitely!

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