[Sca-cooks] Apicius question(s)

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 00:36:53 PST 2009


Apicius, the Vehling translation, is online at Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org .
They also have the original Latin, edited by Giarrantano and Vollmer.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Kathleen A Roberts <karobert at unm.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:29:53 -0400
>  Sharon Palmer <ranvaig at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hing or Heeng is another word for Asafetida.  Silphium was similar to
>> asafotida, which was considered an inferior substitute.
>>
>
> thanks everyone!  i am no longer feeling so grumpy about being confused
> about the recipes in general.  usually i can figure things out pretty well.
>
> and "Cooking Apicius" is now on it's way from amazon, since i really don't
> know if i like roman 60 bucks worth... yet.
>
>
> cailte
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