FEAST
Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
Published: 2002
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780224061384
First sentence: THE MOST NOTORIOUS description of a feast ever written comes in what survives of a first-century satire, Petronius' Satyricon The host is a former slave, profiteer, food speculator, braggart, drunkard and wife-beater called Trimalchio.