Feast
Subtitle: A History of Grand Eating
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: November 3, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780151007585
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.