TY - BOOK ID - 3006959 TI - A handbook of food processing in classical Rome : for her bounty no winter PY - 2006 VL - 9 SN - 9004152369 9789004152366 9786611399726 1281399728 9047410165 9789047410164 9781281399724 9789047410164 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Food KW - Food supply KW - Food industry and trade KW - Aliments KW - Preservation KW - Conservation KW - Approvisionnement KW - Industrie et commerce KW - Foods KW - Dinners and dining KW - Home economics KW - Table KW - Cooking KW - Diet KW - Dietaries KW - Gastronomy KW - Nutrition KW - Food control KW - Produce trade KW - Agriculture KW - Food security KW - Single cell proteins KW - Primitive societies KW - Food preservation KW - Food preservatives KW - Preservation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3006959 AB - 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. ER -