This introductory chapter deals with the study of food and drink within the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History has developed strongly in the past four decades, from a number of perspectives. In anthropology, Detienne & Vernant have been most influential. The chapters that follow set out to give an overview of the topic, and then to add something important to the author, whether a particular example, a particular argument, or an unfamiliar new direction. This book tries to encounter all phases of food eating: production, distribution, preparation, and consumption, and technologies related to them. It focuses on the cultural aspects related to food, but one cannot deny the role played by nature in the process of food choices. Food reflects.