[Sca-cooks] Free redactions of Roman recipes

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

> On Apr 3, 2014, at 9:43 AM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
>> https://www.academia.edu/6574636/Olivias_Cookbook_Roman_Recipies_Adapted_for_the_21st_Century_2008

Patricia Dunham <chimene at ravensgard.org> wrote:
> So... the author lady works at her local Municipal Museum. The Romans called this 
> Croatian county seat town Colonia Aurelia Cibalae, there remain buildings & parts of 
> thermal baths in the downtown. Now known as Vinkovci. (Wiki, of course) The leading 
> sponsors on the outside of the back cover appear to be official Tourist Bureaus... and 
> what look like local merchants' logos, at least a couple of grocers?
>
> Don't know how I managed it but did get a look at one point... very nice color 
> illustrations, print is large & easy to read (I'm getting increasingly grumped about 
> teeny-tiny print -- getting OOOOLD! ha-ha). All the attributions I did see in the text 
> were to Apicius... there are a couple of urls to some ukans "all-the-Latin-texts" type 
> site at the end of the bibliography, so she may have been working directly from the 
> Latin texts and not any of the various English translations...

Thanks for the additional information, Chimene.

> Thanks for this ref, JIM; it may be somewhat early for SCA period, but I'm also 
> interested in late Roman.

Nothing is too early for the SCA, as there is no official starting date. The consensual date is "The Fall of Rome". But since Rome fell down quite a few times before dying, even that consensual date is ambiguous.

Urtatim
who did a 26-dish Greco-Roman feast more than a few years ago