Food in the Ancient WorldIn Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. The book focuses on ancient Greece and Rome, but also looks at Persian, Egyptian, Celtic and other cultures. It embraces people from all walks of life, from impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals, chickpeas and even locusts, to the meat eating elites whose demands drove advances in gastronomy. The authors reveal how