Food in antiquity

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Foreword - Alan Davidson General Introduction - John Wilkins Part 1 The production and preparation of cereals and staples: acornutopia, Sarah Mason Barley cakes and emmer bread, Thomas Braun Roman bread and cereals, K.D. White Byzantine porridge, Stephen Hill and Anthony Bryer Ethnoarchaeology and storage in the ancient Mediterranean, Hamish Forbes and Lin Foxhall Clibanus and sub testu in the Roman world, A.C. Cubberley Molecular biology and ancient history, Robert Sallares Part 2 Meat and fish: the Roman meat trade, Joan Frayn The Apician sauce, Jon Solomon Fish from the Black sea - classical Byzantium and the Greekness of trade, David Braund The paradoxes of seafood, Nicholas Purcell A pretty kettle of fish, Brian Sparkes Part 3 The social and religious context of food and eating: cereal diet and the origins of man, Gerhard Baudy Ritual eating - the case of the parasite, Louise Bruit Ancient vegetarianism, Catharine Osborne Attitudes to fasting women, Veronika Grimm-Samuel The control of foods by sumptuary laws, Liugi Gallo Revolutionary eating at Athens, James Davidson Part 4 Foreign foods: food and frontier in the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, Mario Lombardo Persian food - food stereotypes and political identity, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lydian food, David Harvey Food and archaeology in Romano-Byzantine Palestine, Simon Dar Food for Egyptian temple workers, Dorothy Thompson The oldest recipes of all, Jean Bottero Celtic foods, Peter Reynolds. Part 5 Food and medicine: hippokratic diaita, Elizabeth Craik Hippokratic gynaecology, Helen King Galen and the traveller's fare, Vivian Nutton Oribasius and medical dietetics or the three P's, Mark Grant Part 6 Food and literature: archestratus where and when, Andrew Dalby Problems in Greek gastronomic poetry - on the attic banquet of Matro, Enzo Degani The sources and sauces of Athenaeus, John Wilkins and Shaun Hill Comic food and food for comedy, Dwora Gilula Archestratos: Where and When?, Andrew Dalby Problems in Greek Gastronomic Poetry: on Matro's Attikon Deipnon, Enzo Degani The Sources and Sauces of Athenaeus, John Wilkins Index of passages discussed General index

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