Food in the Ancient World
Food in the Ancient World by John Wilkins and Shaun Hill
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0631235515, 0631235507 | 320 pages | EPUB + azw3 | 4,4 + 13,4 MB
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0631235515, 0631235507 | 320 pages | EPUB + azw3 | 4,4 + 13,4 MB
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.