sca-cooks terminology for head cooks

James and/or Nancy Gilly KatieMorag at worldnet.att.net
Sun Apr 13 07:26:03 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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James and/or Nancy Gilly
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