Reflection the Palatal Delight of Ancient Period to Modern-Day

Abstract

To evaluate the palatal delight of people living in ancient period is quite difficult. Generally the pots, leftovers in these pots, human skeletons and human teeth examined in order to define the meals that cooked and eaten in this period and before. The places used as a garbage in the ancient cities also presents evidence for the food culture of ancient period. Each foundling offer an information about which meals eaten and how the meals hiden in that period. The palatal delight of people living in thousands of years now was pretty different. The people could have eaten even spoilt meals. The palatal delight of people get used to some meals and in this way they generally ate what they get used to. This study examined the people experiences who tried to eat the ancient period meals in the ancient meals workshop. For that reason, qualitative interview have been done with the people attending this workshop. These people evaluate these ancient period meals from different points of view. According to results, when the meals were evaluated from the points of “smell”, “appearance”, “taste” and “palatal delight”, Itria was the most wellloved meal and Garumlu Defrutumlu Lentil was the least loved meal.