Around the Roman Table

First English Language Edition, translated from the original Dutch by Shaun Whiteside. Lightly illustrated. In maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine (boards are strong, square, smooth-edged and fresh). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, lightly shelf worn dust jacket. An introduction to the decadent flavours, exotic delicacies, excessive feeding and pagan orgies of the elite in Imperial Rome, exploding some common myths and providing a boarder than usual perspective, with over 150 recipes for recreating dishes of the Ancients.