[Sca-cooks] Period sources

[Terry Decker]

IIRC, Flower and Rosenbaum place the earliest text of Apicius about 5th or
6th Century and demonstrate that it is a patchwork gleaned from earlier
Greek and Roman texts, one of which may be an original version of Apicius.

Bear

>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.
>--
>David/Cariadoc