A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome : : For Her Bounty No Winter /

A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome : : For Her Bounty No Winter / / David Thurmond.

Rome was able to support a huge urban population by providing it with the rudiments of human nutrition in the form of processed foods. This volume contains a careful analysis of those food processes. The work is organized on the basis of the presumed importance of those foods, beginning with the so-...

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Superior document:Technology and Change in History ; 9
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Thurmond, David,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Technology and Change in History ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1: Cereals
  • Introduction
  • Roman Cereal Grains
  • Parching
  • Threshing
  • Winnowing
  • Ensilage
  • Braying of Porridge Grains
  • Milling of Bread Grains
  • Bolting
  • Breadmaking
  • Leavening
  • Kneading
  • 2: Olives
  • Background
  • Processing
  • Harvesting
  • Cleaning
  • Warehousing
  • Pulping
  • Pressing
  • Separation of Oil
  • Clarification
  • 3: Wine
  • Biochemistry
  • Harvest
  • The Winery
  • Treading the Grapes
  • Pressing
  • Fermentation
  • Chaptalization
  • Cellaring
  • Clarification
  • Infections
  • Modification
  • Aging
  • Other Wines
  • Tapping
  • 4: Legumes, Vegetables and Fruits
  • Legumes
  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
  • 5: Animal Products
  • Milk Products
  • Soured-Milk Products
  • Cheese
  • Meat
  • Fowl
  • Mammals
  • Fish
  • 6: Condiments
  • Salt
  • Sugars
  • Acids
  • Spices
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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