[Sca-cooks] Vindarius, was Drachenwald Camp Cookery Book now online

Sharon Palmer ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Wed Nov 2 17:54:34 PDT 2011


>The Grainger version seems to include it.
>"Apicius, a Critical Edition With an Introduction And English Translation"
>The Amazon description says "This volume supplies a fully referenced 
>parallel text (Latin and English) of Apicius and of the excerpts 
>from Apicius done by Vinidarius."

In the introduction, they conclude that the Vindarius recipes are 
about the same age as the rest of the Apicus recipes.  There are 
several suggested dates for the man Vindarius, 460 in Trace, or after 
493 in Italy, who seems to have excerpted them from an different 
document. There are 30 recipes, about 14 pages including facing 
original and translation.

Ranvaig



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