Our first Guests will be:
Rsch Assoc Sally Grainger (Reading University) – food historian, chef and experimental archaeologist. She has worked with many university institutions and museums helping to interpret the foodways of ancient societies. Together with Dr Christopher Grocock she edited and translated the recipe text known as Apicius.
Dr Maciej Helbig (independent researcher) – classicist, graduated from the University of Silesia.
He successfully reconstructs ancient culinary recipes. He is also interested in Ancient Greek and Roman and Byzantine pastoral poetry and how plants help to define the inner world of bucolics.
22 October 2024, 5:00 p.m. (CEST), Institute of History, Kamińskiego 27a Str. (room 202) and MS Teams
- Maciej Helbig, Silphium – the botanical enigma of the ancient world (see the abstract)
- Sally Grainger, Cooking with silphium. Preliminary experiments with Ferula drudeana and Ferula asafoetida (see the abstract)
Click here to join the meeting: Tastes of Antiquity
23 October 2024, 5:00 p.m. (CEST), ATTENTION!!! The workshop will take place in the buffet of the Faculty of Management, Matejki 22/26 Str. (level -1)
- Sally Grainger and Maciej Helbig, Workshop: Tastes of ancient Rome (max. 20 participants)
If you are interested in taking part in the workshop, please contact us on email: ceraneum@uni.lodz.pl; please, add phrase: 'Tastes of Ancient Rome' in the subject line.
