Ancient Eaters: Elagabalus, the Roman Doctor Frank-N-Furter (203-222 CE)
Higgledy-piggledy, Heliogabalus Lurched through the Forum, his Bottom a-wag. Vainly pretending to Gynecological Matters beneath his Imperial drag ~Anonymous “double dactyl” poem If any figure in Roman...
View ArticleAncient Eater: Archestratus, the OG (Original Gourmand) (Greek, 4th century BCE)
“Now the best [flour] to get ahold of and the finest of all, cleanly bolted from barley with a good grain, is in Lesbos…it is whiter than snow from the sky. If the gods eat barley groats, then Hermes...
View ArticleAncient Eaters: Marcus Gavius Apicius, the Other Other One (Roman, 1st...
“He spent countless sums on his belly.” ~ Apicius described by Athenaeus of Naucratis in his Deipnosophistae (The Philosopher’s Dinner), 3rd century CE Roman men were known by a personal name, a...
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