[Sca-cooks] Pompei poor eating giraffes??
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Jan 3 17:06:33 PST 2014
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
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