- Who
- Black pudding
- What
- first first
- Where
- Greece ()
- When
- 800
The earliest documented reference to food made using blood was in Homer's Odyssey, dated to c.800 BCE. The Greek poem refers to a man who "has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted". Black pudding is typically made from pig or cow blood cooked with a filler such as fat, oatmeal and/or meat until it congeals into a sausage.
The Odyssey is a Greek epic poem attributed to Homer and believed to have been written in the 8th century BC. It tells the story of Odysseus and his journey home after the fall of Troy. The reference to the black pudding describes it a stomach filled with blood and fat and roasted over a fire.
