{"id":1839,"date":"2012-04-12T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2012-04-12T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:40:37","slug":"thucydides-gets-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/thucydides-gets-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"“Thucydides Gets Lunch”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To find good food and not get fleeced, he recommends, leave the city centers and seek marginal areas. Mr. Trillin has been saying this for at least 40 years. I suspect Thucydides preferred the little joint on a side street to the place with the fountains where the waiters peeled customers’ grapes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Like, wow. I think the bit about grape-peeling has wandered in from the decadence of the later Roman Empire, creating a generic \u2018ancient\u2019 context \u2013 James Davidson\u2019s arguments about opson would probably have been a distraction. But why Thucydides, not hitherto noted for his gastronomic preferences or restaurant reviews? My guess is that he\u2019s once again being trotted out as the sort of authority figure whose views even (or especially) right-leaning economists might be expected to respect \u2013 and the earliest such authority figure, so the idea is perfectly sound but entirely unoriginal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Thucydides Gets Lunch<\/a>,” by Abahachi, The Bristol Classics Blog, April 10, 2012<\/p>\n

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