商品簡介
Thurmond shows how Rome was able to support a large urban population in a time when transportation of fresh food certainly had its problems. Working through literary and archeological evidence, he addresses the staples first, including cereals (parching, threshing, winnowing, ensilage, processing of porridge grains and bread grains and breadmaking), olives (processing, cleaning, storing, pulping, pressing and clarification of oils), wine (harvesting, treading, fermenting, clarification and aging) legumes, vegetables and fruits, animal products such as meat, fish and milk products, and the all-essential condiments such as salt, sugars, acids and spices that figured so prominently in food processing and preservation. He includes an impressive set of illustrations. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
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.
