Series: The Other Hunger — A History of Food, Sex & Seduction Across Time*Part 3 of 4* The ancient world had no ambivalence about pleasure. The Greeks philosophised it. The Romans industrialised it. Both civilisations built entire cultural architectures around the idea that the body’s appetites — for food, for wine, for desire — wereContinue reading “God, the Devil & the Dangerous Spice: Food, Desire & Medieval Europe”
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The Insatiable Table: Food, Desire & Excess in Ancient Rome
Series: The Other Hunger— A History of Food, Sex & Seduction Across TimePart 2 of 4 If ancient Greece approached desire with the careful deliberation of a philosopher selecting the perfect argument, ancient Rome approached it the way Rome approached everything else: with unlimited ambition, no apparent ceiling, and a complete conviction that more wasContinue reading “The Insatiable Table: Food, Desire & Excess in Ancient Rome”
The Erotic Table of Ancient Greece: Food, Desire & the Gods Who Blessed Both
Series: A History of Food, Sex & Seduction Across Time*Part 1 of 4* There’s a reason we still use the term aphrodisiacs. The word itself is a gift from ancient Greece — born from Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and desire, who according to myth emerged fully formed from the sea foam off theContinue reading “The Erotic Table of Ancient Greece: Food, Desire & the Gods Who Blessed Both”