Siren Feasts A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

"Dalby has gathered together, read through, assembled, and judiciously commented on practically every known text, fragment, and piece of evidence that relates to food and its preparation in the prehistoric, pre-classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods....'Siren Feasts' can hardly be faulted....There are some surprises, and at every point there is thorough and rigorous documentation....It will surely remain for some time the definitive work on Greek food and gastronomy..."Dalby, Andrew is the author of 'Siren Feasts A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece' with ISBN 9780415156578 and ISBN 0415156572.