Food in the Ancient World
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.