[Sca-cooks] Period sources

[david friedman]

>Actually, it is believed that Platina , um, "borrowed" much of his stuff
>from Martino. Also, while many think of Apicius as being Classical Roman,
>and pre- MA, it appears that there may have been an Apicius who wrote a
>cookbook during the CR period, but most of the recipes are Classical Middle
>Ages.

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>Phlip

Platina explicitly credits Martino in the text.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Classical Middle Ages." I thought the
usual view was that the cookbook attributed to Apicius was late
classical, hence later than the historical Apicius but much earlier
than the Middle Ages.
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