Food Archive
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People were making cheese over 7,000 years ago, researchers find
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What the Roman emperor Tiberius grew in his greenhouses
Posted on September 15, 2012 | No CommentsApparently the specularia were built to provide, in Pliny -
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis in itself is not surprising, but Grossschmidt -
“Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork?” Jews, Food, and Identity in Roman Palestine
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsComments about this dietary regulation, however, are far from a modern phenomenon. Both Jewish and gentile discussions about the absence of pig from the Jewish table survive from antiquity. -
The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus’ Histories
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsOn a historiographical level, if we look at all the ethnographic material in the Histories, it appears that Herodotus wishes the reader to view the world and its peoples in a sort of grid. Scythia and Egyptians are the extremes (in several ways) and other central cultures like the Greeks and Persians fall into place between them. -
Wine and Wealth in Ancient Italy
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThis account of viticulture in Italy during the period from the Punic Wars to the crisis of the third century AD is written in the conviction that the 'economic' history of the ancient world will remain unacceptably impoverished if it is written in isolation from the social and cultural history of the same period. -
Egyptian brewing : the production of beer based on archaeological evidence
Posted on April 21, 2012 | No CommentsProduction of beer in ancient Egypt was an important daily activity. Beer was an essential part of the nutrition of the ancient Egyptian as well as important in religious life. -
Beer, Barbarism, and the Church from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsAt the height of the Roman Empire, Roman citizens undoubtedly favored wine. As the Empire expanded into surrounding areas, increased exposure to beer even further solidified Romans -
Blended Cuisine in Ancient Rome
Posted on February 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn many cultures one can find a set of close and extensive relationships between food and cosmological beliefs such as those of Empedocles. The spiritual conception of cuisine that prevailed among many -
Beer in Greco-Roman antiquity
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No CommentsAn article about Roman and Greek Beer making.
