General introduction -- Themes of this reader -- Learning objectives -- How to read these texts -- Part one : Sumer and Egypt -- Cuneiform recipes / Jean Bottéro (ed. and trans.) and Teresa Lavender Fagan (trans.) -- Egyptian book of the dea / E.A. Wallis Budge (ed. and trans.) -- Ebers papyrus / Cyril P. Bryan (trans.) -- History / Herodotus ; George Rawlinson (trans.) -- Papyri on food in daily life / A.S. Hunt and C.C. Edgar (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part two : Ancient Greece -- The Iliad / Homer ; Samuel Butler (trans.) -- Works and days / Hesiod ; Hugh G. Evelyn-White (trans.) -- Regimen II / Hippocrates ; W.H.S. Jones (trans.) -- Gorgias / Plato ; Benjamin Jowett (trans.) -- Oeconomicus / Xenophon ; E.C. Marchant (trans.) -- The life of luxury / Archestratus ; John Wilkins and Shaun Hill (trans.) -- The moral theory / Epicurus ; Russell M. Geer (trans.) -- The deipnosophists / Athenaeus ; C.D. Yonge (trans.) -- On abstinence from animal food / Porphyry ; Thomas Taylor (trans.) -- Geoponika / Andrew Dalby (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part three : Ancient Rome -- De re agricultura / Marcus Porcis Cato -- The satyricon / Petronius ; William Burnaby (trans.) -- De re coquinaria / Apicius ; Ken Albala (trans.) -- Satires V and XI / Juvenal ; Lewis Evans (trans.) -- The life of Antoninus Heliogabalus / Aelius Lampridius ; David Magie (trans.) -- On the properties of foods / Galen ; Mark Grant (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part four : Imperial China -- The I-Li (Yili) or book of etiquette and ceremonial / John Steele (trans.) -- Book of rites / Li Ji ; James Legge (trans.) -- The yellow emperor's classic of internal medicine / Huangdi ; Ilza Veith (trans.) -- Qi Min Yao Shu (Agricultural text) / Jia Sixie ; Shih Sheng-Han (ed.) -- The classic of tea / Lu Yu ; Francis R. Carpenter (trans.) -- Yin-Shan Cheng-Yao / Hu Szu-Hui ; Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson (eds. and trans.) -- Yin Zhuan Fu Shi Jian (Discourse on food and drink) / Gao Lian ; Su Heng-an (trans.) -- Bencao Gangmu / Li Shizhen ; Shih-Chen Li (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part five : Ancient India -- Mahabharata (Horse sacrifice feast) / Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa ; Kisari Mohan Ganguli (trans.) -- The Taittiriya Upanishad (I am food) / Max Müller (trans.) -- The Sammadhitti Sutta / Bhikkhu Ñanamoli (trans.) and Bhikku Bodhi (ed.) -- The Caraka Samhita (Sutra Sthana) - Ayurvedic medicine and diet / Caraka -- Study questions -- Part six : ancient Hebrews -- Genesis -- Leviticus and Deuteronomy -- The song of songs -- Study questions -- Part seven : early Middle Ages -- Matthew -- On fasting / Tertullian -- Early ascetics / Owen Chadwick (ed.) -- Sacrifice / Clement of Alexandria ; John Leonard Oulton and Henry Chadwich (eds. and trans.) -- Saint Benedict's rule / Benedict of Nursia ; Owen Chadwick (ed.) -- De observatione ciborum (On the observance of foods) / Anthimus ; Mark Grant (trans.) -- Capitularies / Charlemagne ; H.R. Loyn and John Percival (eds.) -- Beowulf / Burton Raffel (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part eight : medieval Islam -- A Baghdad cookery book / al-Baghdadi ; Charles Perry (trans.) -- On manners / al-Ghazali ; D. Johnson-Davies (trans.) -- Canon / Avicenna ; O. Cameron Gruner (trans.) -- Regimen of health / Moses Maimonides ; Ariel Bar-Sela, Hebbel E. Hoff, and Elias Faris (trans.) -- The rubaiyyat / Omar Khayyam ; Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah (trans.) -- Kitãb al-Filãha (Islamic agriculture) / Abũ 'l-Khayr ash-Shajjãr al-Ishbĩlĩ ; Auguste Cherbonneau (trans.), Henri Pérès (ed.), and A.H. Fitzwilliam-Hall (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part nine : late medieval and Renaissance Europe -- De miseria condicionis humanae (On gluttony) / Pope Innocent III ; Robert E. Lewis (ed.) -- Libellus de arte coquinaria / Rudolf Grewe and Constance B. Hieatt (eds.) -- The viandier of Taillevent / Guillaume Tirel ; Terence Scully (ed.) -- Ménagier de Paris / Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose (eds. and trans.) -- Libre de Sent Soví / Joan Santanach (ed.) and Robin Vogelzang (trans.) -- De honeste voluptate / Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi) ; Mary Ella Milham (trans) -- Study questions -- Part ten : the Americas -- Popol Vuh / Allen J. Christenson, trans. -- Journal / Christopher Columbus ; Clements R. Markham (trans.) -- Montezuma's banquet / Bernal Díaz ; John Ingram Lockhart (trans.) -- General history of the things of New Spain / Bernadino de Sahagún ; Fanny R. Bandelier (trans.) -- Utopia / Thomas More -- Study questions -- Part eleven : era of nation-states 1500-1650 -- De civilitate morum puerilium (On good manners for boys) / Desiderius Erasmus ; J.K. Sowards (ed.) -- Food laws / Ulrich Zwingli ; Samuel Macauley Jackson (ed.) -- Opera / Bartolomeo Scappi ; Terence Scully (ed. and trans.) -- English recipes / Gervase Markham and Robert May ; Stuart Peachy and Michael R. Best (eds.) -- Of experience / Michel de Montaigne ; Charles Cotton (trans.) -- Spanish recipes / Rupert of Nola, Diego Granado, Domingo Hernandez de Maceras, Francisco Martinéz Montiño, and Juan de Altamiras ; Ken Albala (trans.) -- Cruz and Rada in China / Gaspar da Cruz and Martín de Rada ; C.R. Boxer (ed.) -- Part twelve : the mercantile era 1650-1800 -- Le cuisinier François / François Pierre La Varenne ; Terence Scully (trans.) -- Coffee advertisement -- Two treatises of government / John Locke -- The compleat housewife / E. Smith -- Emile / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; William H. Payne (trans.) -- American cookery / Amelia Simmons -- The physiology of taste / Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ; Leonard Francis Simpson (trans.) -- Study questions -- Part thirteen : nineteenth-century industrial era -- Treatise on adulterations of food / Friedrich Accum -- A plain cookery book for the working classes / Charles Elmé Francatelli -- A treatise on bread, and bread making / Sylvester Graham -- The book of household management / Isabella Beeton -- Principles of nutrition / Wilbur O. Atwater -- The Boston Cooking-School cook book / Fannie Merritt Farmer -- Fletcherism / Horace Fletcher -- Study questions -- Part fourteen : the twentieth century -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The use and need of the life of Carry A. Nation / Carry A. Nation -- The Italian cookbook / Maria Gentile -- How to cook a wolf / M.F.K. Fisher -- Grinding it out : the making of McDonald's / Ray Kroc -- Diet for a small planet / Frances Moore Lappé -- Recipes for hummus and spanakopetes / Craig Claiborne -- Slow food manifesto / Folco Portinari -- Study questions.