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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.

Food in the Ancient World

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 13/12/2005
    ISBN13: 9780631235514, 978-0631235514
    ISBN10: 0631235515

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    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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