A handbook of food processing in classical Rome : for her bounty no winter /
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-...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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Colección: | Technology and change in history ;
v. 9. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Cereals. Introduction
- Roman Cereal Grains
- Parching
- Threshing
- Winnowing
- Ensilage
- Braying of Porridge Grains
- Milling of Bread Grains
- Bolting
- Breadmaking
- Leavening
- Kneading
- Chapter Two: Olives. Background
- Processing
- Harvesting
- Cleaning
- Warehousing
- Pulping
- Pressing
- Separation of Oil
- Clarification
- Chapter Three: Wine. Biochemistry
- Harvest
- The Winery
- Treading the Grapes
- Pressing
- Fermentation
- Chaptalization
- Cellaring
- Clarification
- Infections
- Modification
- Aging
- Other Wines
- Tapping
- Chapter Four: Legumes, Vegetables, and Fruits. Legumes
- Vegetables
- Fruits
- Chapter Five: Animal Products. Milk Products
- Soured Milk Products
- Cheese
- Meat
- Fowl
- Mammals
- Fish
- Chapter Six: Condiments. Salt
- Sugars
- Acids
- Spices
- Epilogue.