Sally Grainger
Sally Grainger | |
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| At the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in 2012 | |
| Education | Royal Holloway University of London |
| Occupation | Food historian |
Sally Grainger is an English food historian specialising in Roman recipes.[1] [2]
Early life and education
[edit ]Grainger left school aged 16 with no O-levels, and worked as a pastry chef. She later gained four O-levels and two A-levels, including ancient history, at evening classes, and at the age of 30 started to study for a degree in ancient history at Royal Holloway University of London. There, at a toga party for which she had created food using Roman recipes, she met historian Andrew Dalby who suggested that they co-author a book.[2]
Career in food history
[edit ]Grainger has worked with museums and television companies as an expert on Roman food, appearing on shows including Time Team and Neil Oliver's A History of Ancient Britain.[3] [4] She has a particular research interest in the Roman fish sauce garum, and studied for an MA at the University of Reading where her dissertation topic was "Roman fish sauce: an experiment in archaeology".[1]
Grainger published The Classical Cookbook, coauthored with Andrew Dalby, in 1996; a revised edition was published in 2012.[5] Together with her husband Christopher Grocock she published a translation and critical edition of Apulius' Roman cookbook in 2006.
Selected publications
[edit ]- Dalby, Andrew; Grainger, Sally (2012). The Classical Cookbook (2nd ed.). British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714122755. (1st ed published 1996 by J Paul Getty Museum Pubns)
- Grocock, C. W.; Grainger, Sally (2006). Apicius: a critical edition with an introduction and an English translation of the Latin recipe text Apicius. Prospect. ISBN 978-1903018132.
- Grainger, Sally (2015). Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today. Prospect Books. ISBN 978-1903018446.
- Grainger, Sally (2021). The story of garum: fermented fish sauce and salted fish in the ancient world. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0367683122.
- Grainger, Sally (2024). Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks. Apartamento. ISBN 978-8409656806.
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Dalby, Andrew (26 June 2016). "Symposiasts at Work: Sally Grainger". Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Archived from the original on 18 November 2025. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ^ a b Benitez-James, Layla (6 June 2025). "Interview with Sally Grainger". Apartamento Magazine. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ^ "Cookery through the ages". Current Archaeology. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
- ^ "Celtic History Books for Children". resourcesforhistory.com. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
Sally often performs cooking demonstrations at the Roman Legionary Museum
- ^ Colakis, Marianthe (1 January 2014). "The Classical Cookbook, revised edition [review]" (PDF). The Classical Journal. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
External links
[edit ]- Blog "A Taste of the Ancient World"
- YouTube channel "A Taste of the Ancient World"
- Sally Grainger at Academia.edu
- Sally Grainger at IMDb