sca-cooks Feast Budget
Aonghas MacLeoid (B.G. Morris)
hylndr at ionline.net
Sun Apr 13 08:59:50 PDT 1997
Question -
Wouldn't "architriclinus" be latin? Particularly if it is refering to a
cook found in a roman kitchen cooking for a meal to be served in a roman
dining room which was called a triclinium (or is it -us)? (So called
because of the usual three benches around the table.)
Philippa
> Michael F. Gunter wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> I'm partial to the Greek term "architriclinus" which translates roughly
> as "dining-master", and was applied to the pampered Greek head cook
> often found in Roman and Byzantine kitchens.
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