Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Very minor edge rubbing. More than 60 recipes that reflect the instructions contained in the sole remaining cookery book of the Roman Empire: Apicius. 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 128 pages.

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Title

Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today

Publisher

Prospect Books, Devon, England

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

1903018447

ISBN 13

9781903018446

Binding

Softcover

Illustrator

Illustrated by Andras Kaldor

Condition

Fine No dust jacket as issued

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To accompany the new scholarly edition of Apicius, Sally Grainger has gathered, in one convenient volume, her modern interpretations of 64 of the recipes in the original text. These are not recipes inspired by the old Romans but rather a serious effort to convert the extremely gnomic instructions in the Latin into something that can be reproduced in the modern kitchen and which actually gives some idea of what the Romans might have eaten. Sally Grainger, therefore, has taken great pains to suggest means of replicating the particular Roman taste for fermented fish sauce. It may sound unpleasant, but actually is not too far removed from the fish sauces of the Far East, and any reproduction of Roman cookery must depend on getting this particular aspect right. Not all the recipes are for mad Roman luxuries such as lark's tongues and boar's bottoms; Grainger has taken care to include perfectly do-able and affordable dishes such as cucumber with mint dressing, duck with turnip, roast lamb with coriander, carrots or parsnips in a cumin-honey glaze, almond and semolina pudding, and deep fried honey fritters. The advantage of this manual over those that have come before is that it is more accurate and benefits from all the hard work that Sally Grainger and Christopher Grocock have put into getting the text of Apicius itself into some sort of working order.

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Apicius was a Roman scholar.

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