Feast
Subtitle: A History of Grand Eating
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780712667593
Subjects: History - General History; Customs; Food & Drink / Cookery; Social history; General
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.