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Title: FOOD IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
By: John M. Wilkins, Shaun Hill
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0631235507
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Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
Pub. date: 13 December, 2005
Series: Ancient Cultures
Pages: 320
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.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 31 illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
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