[Sca-cooks] New Apicius books and other new books

Sydney Walker Freedman freedmas at stolaf.edu
Wed Jun 14 12:35:24 PDT 2006


I didn't see the papers on fig and elder.  What were their titles?

> Christopher Grocock and Sally Grainger have a new translation of Apicius
> and Sally Grainger has a bok to go along with it called Cooking Apicius.
> "This is not 'recipes inspired by the old Romans' but rather a serious
> effort to convert the extremely gnomic instructions in the Latin into
> something that can be reproduced in the modern kitchen which actually
> gives some idea of what the Romans might have eaten."
>
> On another list Sally asked people to get it straight from
> Prospectbooks.com rather than amazon, but I couldn't get that website to
> work.  In a websearch, this seems to be the Prospect bookstore site:
> http://www.kal69.dial.pipex.com/shop/system/index.html.
>
> While there I saw some others that look interesting including some
> collected papers, one on wine, one on spices and comfits and some I'd like
> to know more about on elder flowers/berries, chestnuts, and figs.
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
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Pax Christi,
Sydney




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