Food in Ancient World C

von Wilkins, Hill S

320 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9780631235507
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2006
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons