[Sca-cooks] Looking for a Roman craticula (cooking grate)

[Terry Decker]

There is one on page 107 of Giacosa's A Taste of Ancient Rome.  There is 
supposed to be one in Vehling's Apicius.  IIRC, there is a photograph of one 
in the catalog of the Pompeii exhibition that went around abpout 30 years 
ago.  The Legio IX Hispana actually built one and you can chase it here, 
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00000220.html .

Bear




> This summer someone posted a picture of a reproduction of a Roman 
> craticula.
> A friend said he would make me one because it looked like it would fold 
> down
> nicely for taking camping.  Now neither of us can find the picture.
>
> It is essentially a metal grate made with something resembling rebar. 
> What
> I remember is a rectangular frame with about 1/3 spaced out with two 
> circles
> of metal designed to hole pots, then the other 2/3's made grill like with
> metal bars that could fold down to create the gill or fold out of the way.
> All on nice collapsible legs.
>
> Ring any bells for anyone?  Steffan has a mention in the Cheap Apicus Art
> section with an article by Margali "Apicus for the Impoverished"
>
> Maybe something like St. Lawrence's gridiron but with special round holes
> for pots.
>
> Ring Any bells?
>
> Wanda Pease/Regina Romsey
> Never attribute to malice what can as easily
> be attributed to simple social ineptness
>
>
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