This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Marcus Gavius Apicius, (flourished 1st century ce), wealthy Roman merchant and epicure during the reign of Tiberius (14–37 ce), after whom was named one of the earliest cookbooks in recorded history. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Like many contemporary cookbooks, Apicius is divided into sections based on main ingredients, although unlike them, it does not specify measurements and often omits preparation techniques, simply saying “cook until done.” The book includes sections on meats, vegetables, legumes, fowl, and seafood. [Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today] [By: Grainger, Sally] [December, 2015] | Marcus Gavius Apicius | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle … If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. In the case of others, we have re-interpreted the Latin, and therefore the recipes themselves, and this has led to a re-interpretation of the modern adaptations. Unable to add item to List. Apicius, Roman foodie noted for excess, lent name to historic cookbook. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. to miss them out of a book entitled Cooking Apicius would have simply been wrong. 11 0 obj 6 0 obj Sally Grainger, therefore, has taken great pains to suggest means of replicating the particular Roman taste for fermented fish sauce. …of the ancient world was Apicius, a wealthy Roman merchant of the reign of Tiberius (. There was a problem loading your book clubs. %PDF-1.3 Apicius is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, thought to have been compiled in the 1st century AD and written in a language in many ways closer to Vulgar than to Classical Latin; later recipes using Vulgar Latin (such as ficatum, bullire) were added to earlier recipes using Classical Latin (such as iecur, fervere). Rather, Grainger has assembled some of the best and most readily accessible recipes from that volume, omitting the overly lavish and the downright complicated.
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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. In addition to stimulating the invention of others, Myhrvold... Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. %��������� Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.