Food in the Ancient World
Food in the Ancient World
Food in the Ancient World
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Food in the Ancient World

John Wilkins

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13-December-2005
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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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Food in the Ancient World

$316.00

Description

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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