Foodservice Planning or Siren Feasts

Foodservice Planning: Layout, Design, and Equipment

Author: Barbara A Almanza

This comprehensive book has become a standard for designing and equipping a foodservice facility. Focuses on the role of the computer in foodservice planning and discusses the efficiencies technology can create. Includes one of the most comprehensive sections on equipment. Emphasizes the need for industrial engineering technologies in planning a start-up facility and successfully choosing and arranging equipment for optimum results. For anyone involved in restaurant, food service and hospitality management and planning.

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Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

Author: Andrew Dalby

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oilfour of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character.

In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits.

Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yetimmensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	The Way These People Sacrifice	1
2	The Gardens of Alcinous	33
3	Divine Inventions	57
4	In the Feasts of the Lydians	93
5	Sicilian Tables	113
6	Lemons of the Hesperides	133
7	Strymonian Eels	152
8	The Imperial Synthesis	168
9	Biscuits from Byzantium	187
	Notes	212
	Bibliography	267
	Index of ancient and medieval sources	287
	Greek Index	297
	General Index	310