Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius Release date is 2009-08-19
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"Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius" is a collection of Roman recipes possibly compiled in the fifth century AD. This ancient cookbook, written in a mix of Classical and Vulgar Latin, offers a fascinating window into the culinary world of wealthy Romans around the Mediterranean. Organized into ten books with Greek titles, it covers everything from meat and vegetables to seafood and exotic delicacies like flamingo. The recipes reveal sophisticated cooking techniques and ingredient combinations that shaped dining in the ancient world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)