PPC 087 (February 2009)

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PPC 87 (February 2009)

Contents Buy an individual article as a PDF 13 Florence White’s Good Food Register, 1935 53 Gingerbread Jenny Kingsley 61 The Inventory of Walter Stanhope of Leeds, 1759 Eileen White 89 Food as Metaphor for Good and Evil in Biographies of the Later Roman Emperors Michael Beer 103 Book Reviews

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MICHAEL BEER has completed a doctoral dissertation on the role of dietary restriction in the construction of identity in the Graeco-Roman world at the University of Exeter. A book, provisionally entitled Taste or Taboo: Dietary Choices in Antiquity, is in preparation at Prospect Books. He teaches in Exeter. JENNY KINGSLEY is an American writer and journalist living in London. EILEEN WHITE lives in Bradford and is involved with the Leeds Symposium on Food History, having edited and contributed to many of the proceedings published by Prospect.