SC - Apicius Question
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Tue Oct 24 12:41:26 PDT 2000
The following information is from a web page for "The Apicius Institute at
Lorenzo De Medici" found at http://www.apicius.it/
>>*Apicius (25 BC?), whose real name was Marcus Gavio, was the greatest
expert of gastronomy in antiquity. He devoted his life and his own money to
the art of cooking until having to declare bankruptcy, soon after which he
committed suicide. His work "De Re Coquinaria" is the most important cooking
treatise in Latin. It reveals the evolution of taste in terms of food and
lifestyle of the Roman upper class up to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
Not only is Apicius' book of historical relevant interest, but it is also
very curious in its list of recipes which are still very valid today. It
shows clearly how many Italian regional dishes of our culinary tradition have
their roots in the Greek and Roman culture.<<
It is my understanding that the authorship of "De Re Coquinaro" is debatable
at the least, and that several food writers during the Roman era were called
Apicius.
Any comment from the Roman scholars on our list?
Mordonna The Cook
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