How to Eat | Author: A Buffet of Ancient Authors

A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well! Today, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly prescriptive dietary advice, and developed detailed systems to categorise foods and their health effects.

How to Eat is a delectable anthology of Greco-Roman writings on how to eat, exercise, sleep, bathe, and manage your sex life for optimal health. It also gathers ancient opinions on specific foods of all sorts, from how to deploy onions to cure baldness and cabbage to get sober to whether lentils are healthy and why arugula increases your sex drive.

Hardback
17.1 x 11.4cm
296 pages