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Catering a "Roman orgy" - Epictetus - 07-20-2010 What happens when a caterer is contracted to serve at a Roman orgy? Quote:A Harvard University professor, who will remain nameless, asked me to cater a Roman dinner, hereafter known as the Orgy. Considering the money (and not, in my innocence, the potential for blackmail), I took the job. I went to the lowest level—of Harvard’s Widener Library—and found Apicius and other texts giving clues to the foods of the Roman Empire. |