SC - Re: Apicius redux

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/23/2000 1:08:50 PM EST, owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org 
writes:

<< Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
 Subject: Re: SC - Apicius redux
 
 You might look at the Sala Cattabia recipe.  I did this years ago at a
 Cook's List, using someone else's redacted recipe (and did not have an
 original to look at).  I hollowed out the loaf and moistened the innards
 and the hollowed out crust, and used the crust as my mold, layering the
 items inside it, replacing the top as a lid, then slicing it and serving
 it cold on a plate with lettuce, IIRC.   I have long felt that assembled
 slightly differently it would make a good sandwich.  
 Christianna
 (recipe post from Hauviette below) >>

Hey, cool. Glad to see the Roman recipes are getting some use. I'm not at 
home right now but to add to the list of Apicius translations, there is one 
in English by Edwards and several in German(I don't speak German though). 
IIRC the only English translations are Edwards, Vehling and Flower and 
Rosenbaum. There might be some translations on various Roman web sites. I 
can't think of their addresses at the moment. 

If you have Ilaria Giacosa's book, be careful with using her recipes, she is 
pretty liberal with exchanging garum for plain salt instead of looking to the 
other possibilities. This type of stretch is unfortunately in alot of what 
she does. OTOH, Sally Grainger has a book with Andrew Dalby, titled Classical 
Cooking.
Sally is very into Roman recreation and is if I've understood her an 
archaeologist who works out of London. In addition to her scholarly 
background, she is a stickler for detail and has put a great deal of thought 
into her recipes.She is a regular poster on the Apicius Cooking list.

I personally have several recipes from Apicius, but at the moment do not have 
access to my library or my files. I'll post the list of my recipes next week 
if your're interested and peruse the sources I have for some ideas. 

If you are looking for a copy of Flower and Rosenbaum, there are several at 
various on line book stores. I found one recently for $7 (I know, that was a 
find) at King Book's in Detroit. I believe they have a web site if you want 
to reach them.
 
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Hauviette