[Sca-cooks] Deipnosophists

[Johnna Holloway]

It turns out that Harvard University Press has a new edition of this 
out. So far there's 2 volumes

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L208N.html
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L204N.html

The Learned Banqueters, I, Books 1-3.106e
 The Learned Banqueters, II, Books 3.106e-5.

Athenaeus Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

In /The Learned Banqueters/, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner 
parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The 
work (which dates to the very end of the second century A.D.) is amusing 
reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from 
works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information 
about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments 
that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart 
of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a 
complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume 
Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title /Deipnosophists/)
The next volume is due out in January 2008.

Johnnae