[Sca-cooks] Pompei poor eating giraffes??
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Fri Jan 3 17:41:10 PST 2014
??camel??
How did camel get into this? Pliny's "cameleopard" is (the editor says) a
giraffe. (Some Romans did eat camel, but Galen for instance disparages the
meat; butchered camel bones have been found in Gaul from the Gallo-Roman
period.)
Otherwise, Dalby's good, but he's hardly Pliny. And he says nothing about
giraffes.
Jim Chevallier
Feasts and All Their Finery
Elegant Dining in Old Regime France
http://chezjim.com/books/legrand-feasts.html
In a message dated 1/3/2014 5:07:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
johnnae at mac.com writes:
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.
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