A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter (Technology and Change in History): 9 - Hardcover

Thurmond, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004152369 ISBN 13: 9789004152366

Publisher: Brill, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

David L. Thurmond received the Ph.D. in Classical Philology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Research interests include archaic Roman religion, Roman social history, and Greek and Roman technology. He currently resides in Durham, NC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004152369
• ISBN 13: 9789004152366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304