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Today's celebrity chefs owe thanks to the 19th century's.

By Tony Perrottet

For Buffalo Bill, leading rich New Yorkers through the West was practice.

By Tony Perrottet

Need a dinner party menu? Ask Ovid.

By Tony Perrottet

Gertrude Stein and Henri Rousseau are coming over. Call the caterer!

By Tony Perrottet

Symposia today are profs and papers. For Plato, it was brains and booze.

By Tony Perrottet

Love today is candy and flowers. In the Enlightenment it was rams' testicles.

By Tony Perrottet

The ideal Roman night? Drunk and naked in the woods.

By Tony Perrottet

Forget Atkins. Forget Weight Watchers. Try the Renaissance Diet.

By Tony Perrottet

Did Marie-Antoinette's rack inspire your glass?

By Tony Perrottet

In 16th century Italy, they had a nasty habit of peeing in the vats.

By Tony Perrottet

Dishes only a fascist could love.

By Tony Perrottet