SC - Apicius Question

[Llewmike at aol.com]

Regarding Apicius, much of what we do know is apocryphal. According to said 
legends, Apicius did live in first century Rome and committed suicide when he 
found that he had spent so much of his fortune that he could not live any 
longer in the style to which he had become accustomed. We do know that man of 
this name did live during the time of the emperor Tiberius (14 A.D. to 37 
A.D.) as he is mentioned by several authors and can surmise that he is the 
author.

Most of the book was written in the first century A.D. according to studies 
of the text and references within the text to various personages. Other parts 
however seem to have been added at a later date and may be from agricultural 
texts by Apuleius and some sections seem to come from different texts 
altogether. Further, some of the receipts seem to be out of order and may be 
the result of later additions or rearrangments by later copiers. There are no 
extant copies of the original document.

I have a question to throw out here - what translation would you consider the 
best?  I now know enough Latin to translate the recipes by myself but I still 
prefer to check myself occasionally using Flowers and Rosenbaum (1957) as I 
find Vehling far too dry (1936) but I have heard others comment on what they 
consider better additions.

LLEW