>>7011042Except it was?
Most of the spices we associate with modern Greek food were brought by the Ottoman trade. Even normal Mediterranean spices like cumin were isolated to the Levant and North Africa until after the middle ages, which is why you don't see them in Roman cooking. They had dishes like souvlaki, simple skewers of meat, but nothing like modern gyros or kebab.
Yogurt is from the Steppe peoples, disseminated first to the Persians, then to modern Turkey, then finally to Greece under Ottoman rule. Ancient Greeks might have had farmer's cheese or quark, as well as feta, but no evidence for yogurt cultures existing that far back exists.
The only modern Greek food that there's evidence for existing in pre-Ottoman times is baklava. All other Ancient Greek recipes are much more similar to Northern European cuisine than modern Greek.
> Breakfast (ἀkρατισμός akratismos) consisted of barley bread dipped in milk shakes (ἄkρατος akratos), sometimes complemented by figs or olives. They also ate pancakes called τηγανίτης (tēganitēs), ταγηνίτης (tagēnitēs) or ταγηνίας (tagēnias), all words deriving from τάγηνον (tagēnon), "frying pan".Up until the middle ages all wheat bread was sourdough, and bread that wasn't sourdough was mixed with barley or some other grain. Barley was also cheaper than wheat. It would have been impossible for the average Greek to eat modern dishes on a regular basis. They were eating soups of barley and lentils, not gyros.
