| A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter Contributor(s): Thurmond, David (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 9004152369 ISBN-13: 9789004152366 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $168.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: A careful analysis of Roman food processes, including those for cereals, olive oil, wine, other plant products, animal products, and condiments. The work combines analysis of literary and archaeological evidence with that of traditional comparative practices and modern food science. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Ancient & Classical - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 664.009 |
| Series: Technology and Change in History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.6" (1.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rome was able to support a huge urban population by providing it with the rudiments of human nutrition in the form of processed foods. This volume contains a careful analysis of those food processes. The work is organized on the basis of the presumed importance of those foods, beginning with the so-called Mediterranean Triad of cereals (particularly wheaten bread), olive oil and wine, then dealing with plant products such as legumes, vegetables and fruits, then animal products, and ending with the condiments (salts, sugars, acids, spices) which were themselves the agents for the preservation of other foods. The work combines analysis of literary and archaeological evidence from antiquity with that of traditional comparative practices and modern food science. |
