Sublime

Her lye-cure recipe produced a very mild-tasting olive, similar to the black California olives still found in cans on grocery shelves today.

a ‘gymnasium’ in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games such as wrestling, but was also a place for socialising and engaging in intellectual pursuits. It was a place that produced many a great Greek.

Greece

For the Greeks, beans were a symbol of democracy. However, the Greeks preferred oligarchy. They considered democracy to be the rule of the lower classes over the elite. Pitagoras imposed a ban on beans partly because of oligarchy. Like the wealthy Romans, wealthy Greeks ate beans as special dishes only. They ate young, fresh beans, which were soft

The Greek tale of Milo