Contiene i seguenti saggi: Salt, fish and the sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Ørsted ; The Roman family at dinner / Keith Bradley ; Roman children at mealtimes / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen ; Eating with the dead: the Roman funerary banquet / Hugh Lindsay ; Ut Graeco more biberetur : Greeks and Romans on the dining couch / Katherine Dunbabin ; Royal banquets : the development of royal banquets and banqueting halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs / Inge Nielsen ; The sixth hour is the mealtime for scholars : Jewish meals in the Roman world / David Noy ; The common meal in the Qumran-Essene communities / Per Bilde ; Sacred meal and sacred meeting : Paul's argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallbäck ; Regulating fellowship in the communal meal : early Jewish and Christian evidence / L. Michael White |