What was at stakeAntony did not come to Egypt for dinner.He came for troops, money, and a convenient queen.Cleopatra, ever the overachiever, decided to serve all three courses at once. It is 41 BCE, and the Mediterranean is one long, frayed nerve. Julius Caesar has been dead for three years, stabbed to death on theContinue reading “Gastro-Politics: Cleopatra’s Pearl Cocktail and the Dinner That Dared Rome”