Faas, Patrick,

Around the Roman table / Patrick Faas, with more than 150 original recipes ; translated from the Dutch by Shaun Whiteside ; edited by the author. - University of Chicago Press edition. - 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Food and feasting in ancient Rome"--Cover. Original translation published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-356) and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Culinary History The Age of Kings (753 BC to 509 BC) The Republic (509 BC to 7 BC) The Empire (7 BC to AD 476) -- The Meal Table Manners and Etiquette The Courses The Menu The Carousal -- Wine and Other Drinks Wine The Orgy Wine Production Other Drinks -- The Cook and His Condiments The Cook Cooking Medicinal Theory Flavours - Sour Flavours - Salt Flavours - Sweet Flavours - Bitter Herbs Spices Other Ingredients -- From the Land Cereals Pulses Vegetables Fruit and Nuts -- From the Fire Eating Meat Sacrifice Meat Distribution Animal Suffering Pork The Sacred Bull Sheep and Goats Dogs Game -- From the Air The Farmyard Wild Birds -- From the Water Appendix Weights and Measures Money Prices. Part One: -- I. II. III. IV. Part Two: -- V. VI. VII. VIII.

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Cooking, Roman
Cooking, Roman--History
Food habits--History--Rome
Food--History.

TX725.R68 / F3313 2005

641.5937