[Sca-cooks] Pompei poor eating giraffes??

[Johnna Holloway]

My fault. I thought mentioned camels.
This working without files is a pain…

Johnna

On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:41 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:

> ??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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