[Sca-cooks] Pompei poor eating giraffes??

[Johnna Holloway]

The place to look would be 
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z by Andrew Dalby 
Entries are arranged in alphabetical order.

With this broken foot, I can't look for my copy in the library loft here but according to Google Books
camel is included on page 71.

Johnnae

On Jan 3, 2014, at 3:47 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:

> Pliny the Elder probably knew Pompeii; he died there (trying to rescue  
> friends). He says that the giraffe was seen "occasionally" in Rome, which 
> argues  against it being a standard food item.
> 
> _http://books.google.com/books?id=v4BiAAAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Apliny%20giraffe
> &pg=PA277#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=v4BiAAAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor:pliny%20giraffe&pg=PA277#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
> 
> Jim  Chevallier