Placenta (food)
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For the temporary organ unique to Eutherian mammals, see Placenta.
Placenta is a dish from ancient Rome consisting of sheets of flour dough (similar to modern phyllo) topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves.[1][2] Cato included a recipe in his De Agri Cultura.[3] Its origin is the traditional Ancient Greek thin flat bread or cake, plakous (Greek: "πλακοῦς").[4][5]
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- ^ "American Pie". American Heritage. April/May 2006. http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_30.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-04. "The Romans refined the recipe, developing a delicacy known as placenta, a sheet of fine flour topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves."
- ^ Around the Roman Table. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 0226233472. http://books.google.com/books?id=YXGlAr17oekC&pg=PA186&dq=Placenta+as+food+Italy+bay+leaves&ei=osZPStvpK4PcygS6nvXRAg.
- ^ "Roman Recipes". Temple of Religio Romana. http://www.religioromana.net/romanrecipes.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-04. (includes recipe)
- ^ placenta, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, on Perseus
- ^ πλακοῦς, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
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