[Sca-cooks] ancient Roman cookery

lilinah at earthlink.net lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 29 14:29:23 PDT 2005


>OK, here is what one of my books has to say about the issue.
>
>From Around the Roman Table by Patrick Faas (p155 - 156):

SNIP

>I have never taken a poll regarding what people thought about the
>accuracy of this source.

It, like so many other books, is somewhat mixed. He has some good 
info, but he sneers at the peach patina with fish sauce and cumin 
(oh, yeah, it also has some green stuff in it) as being inedible. 
That dish was one of the hit dishes of my Greco-Roman feast.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita



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