[Sca-cooks] Apician date recipe

[Decker, Terry D.]

Mea culpa, Thomas.  I was concentrating more on the edible dates than the
historical dates.

Bear

> I should like to point out (once again), that -- as far as I
> can see --
> the Apicius-collection we have in our hands now, is NOT a
> text _written
> by_ Apicius. The real Apicius (the gourmand) was born around 25 B.C.
> Very probably he wrote a general cookbook and a more special
> cookbook on
> sauces. THESE WORKS ARE LOST NOW. What has come down to us under the
> name of Apicius was finished by the end of the fourth or the beginning
> of the fifth century. It seems that about 2/3 of the recipes in this
> collection can be said to go back to the two lost works of Apicius
> somehow, while the rest of the material is taken from
> different texts on
> agriculture, dietetics partly written in Greek. For more details see
> Maier, ed., Das römische Kochbuch ..., Stuttgart 1991, 250f. and E.
> Brandt, Untersuchungen zum römischen Kochbuche, 1927.
>
> Th.