This book is the first to explore the food of the Mediterranean world in ancient times, from 750 BC to AD 450. All types of food are represented here, allowing the modern cook to recreate the varied diet of the classical world.

373 Days Afloat (and counting) is the true story of an ordinary couple dissatisfied with the daily 9 to 5 routine who sold their house, bought a sailing yacht and took to a life at sea for fun and adventure initially off the west coast of Scotland. This book is based upon the journal that they kept and begins with an account of the events that forged their desire to do something different and ends at the conclusion of their first complete cruising season. Sometimes tragic and occasionally amusing, this quirky tale is punctuated by comments, observations, literary quotations and a few of the...

A detailed revelation of what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire, accompanied by colourful descriptions of the sights and smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces. For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Tastes of Byzantium now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first time, what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire - and how it was cooked. Fusing the spices of the Romans with the seafood...