[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts from Apicius)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Chris Stanifer wrote:

>These are just a few of the food adulteration sections from JDV's text 'Apicius: Cookery and
>Dining in Imperial Rome',
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[snip]

>1. pg 48 - VI [9] To Improve a Broth
>If broth has contracted a bad odor, place a vessel upside down and fumigate it with laurel and
>cypress and before ventiliating it, pour the broth in this vessel...
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What Vehling has translated as "broth" is actually liquamen, according 
to Flower and Rosenbaum.

>William de Grandfort
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