Paxamus

Paxamus, or Paxamos (Greek: Πάξαμος), was an ancient Greek author from the Hellenistic period. He composed a cookbook titled On Cooking and a text on farming titled On Farming. Athenaeus, another Greek writer, mentioned Paxamus once in his work titled Deipnosophists. Paxamus was perhaps the inventor of barley biscuits named after him called "paximathia". He was quoted in the Geoponica, a Byzantine text on agriculture.

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• Alcock, Joan P. (2006). Food in the Ancient World. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-33003-4.
• Dalby, Andrew (2003). Food in the Ancient World from A to Z. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23259-7.
• Dalby, Andrew (1996). Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-496985-2.