Archestratus

…mock epic poem written by Archestratus of Gela (Sicily) about 350 bce. It is preserved in excerpts quoted in Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistai (c. 200 ce; “The Gastronomers”; Eng. trans. The Deipnosophists). Archestratus toured the cosmopolitan centres of the ancient Greek world from the Black Sea to southern Italy, recording their cuisines.…

…preceded him, one of whom, Archestratus, produced his masterpiece, Hēdypatheia (“Pleasant Living”), in 350 bce.