[Sca-cooks] Free redactions of Roman recipes
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Fri Apr 4 15:35:09 PDT 2014
Just to be clear, the gourmet Apicius was first century, but he is not
believed to have had anything to do with the work, which is generally dated to
the fourth or fifth century and may have been compiled by several hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius
"Apicius" seems to have become a kind of general term for a gourmet just as
Amphitryon became a French term for a host. This is why I always refer to
Pseudo-Apicius; it is a little too easy to blur the lines between the
historical figure and the (unknown) author or authors of the work.
Jim Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
Early Medieval French wine
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/early-medieval-french-wine.html
In a message dated 4/4/2014 3:12:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
t.d.decker at att.net writes:
While Apicius is 1st Century CE, there are excerpts transcribed in the 5th
or 6th Century
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