Ebook: Food in the ancient world
Author: Hill Shaun, Wilkins John
- Tags: Food habits -- History -- To 1500. Food -- History. Civilization Ancient. Beslenme alışkanlıkları -- Tarih -- 1500'e kadar. Besin -- Tarih. Uygarlık Eski Çağ Food. Food habits. Altertum. Ernährung.
- Series: Ancient cultures (Malden Mass.)
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- City: Malden, MA, Oxford
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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