Al Leonard

Al is a lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America and Professor Emeritus in the departments of Classical Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona. He is an archaeologist who specializes in the social impact of interregional trade among the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world. For more than three decades, he has directed excavations at a variety of sites around the Mediterranean including Sicily, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, and Portugal, and has published the results of this research in six books and more than 150 articles. As his alter ego, the Time-traveling Gourmet©, Al combines his command of archaeological, historical, and literary material with culinary skills he has mastered at Le Cordon Bleu and the Culinary Institute of America in order to reconstruct (in the classroom or the kitchen) the meals that were served to ancient royalty.

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