[Sca-cooks] Free redactions of Roman recipes

[Terry Decker]

It should be pointed out that the "Fall of Rome" is generally taken to be 
September 4, 476 CE, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus.  Technically 
Odoacer was ruling in the name of Julius Nespos, until said "emperor" was 
offed in 480.

While Apicius is 1st Century CE, there are excerpts transcribed in the 5th 
or 6th Century, two copies made in the 9th Century, a number of 15th Century 
copies of the Vatican manuscript and at least 4 printed editions between 
1498 and 1550.  So I would say the long lived Apician cookbook was around 
through the full range of SCA period.  Whether and how it influenced cooking 
is an open question.

Bear

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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