Food in the Ancient WorldISBN: 978-0-631-23551-4
Paperback
320 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a
practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and
drinking.
- Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200
AD.
- Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked
with morality and the social order.
- Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished
citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
- Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and
drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.
- Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.
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