Written around 375 B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical Greek culture. Like Xenophon’s earlier work, Plato’s is also set at the dinner party of a famous Athenian poet.

Surviving images on ancient works of art frequently depict the symposium, where ancient Greeks reclined on one side to eat ...

Sometime in the 1920s, Greek chef and cookbook author Nikolas ... Plan on moussaka being the centerpiece to a family gathering or small dinner party. I put my own, small mark on this moussaka ...