Was Cleopatra a healthy eater?

This week marks the release of a much-heralded new biography of the most famous queen of Egypt: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff which reveals much about the life of a woman who remains as famous now as she was during her lifetime.

Schiff writes that Cleopatra retains one of the busiest afterlives in history” as not only a historical figure, but as the name for an asteroid, a synonym for Elizabeth Taylor, and inspiration for a video game, cigarettes, slot machine, and strip clubs.

And restaurants! There are dining spots named for Cleo in Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, Arizona and Ohio.