Word: phrygian
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...years later his lab identified some of the key constituents in a funerary feast held in about 700 B.C. in honor, some think, of King Midas. The feast, as re-enacted at a gala hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, included a modern re-creation of Phrygian grog, a concoction McGovern's lab determined was part wine, part beer and part mead...
...clear chemical signature of resin from the terebinth tree, a type of pistachio that grows throughout the Middle East. Today only the Greeks still drink resinated wine, but the practice could become more widespread if McGovern's interest in re-creating ancient beverages catches on. The reconstructed Phrygian grog was a lovely drink, McGovern dreamily recalls, "with a saffron taste that caught at the back of the throat and drew you back for more...