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Apicius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
APICIUS APICIUS. The proverbial gastronomer Apicius (M. Gavius Apicius, c. 25 b.c.e – c. 37 c.e.), who lived at the time of the emperor Tiberius, gives his name to the most complete cookbook that has come down from antiquity...
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Marcus Gabius Apicius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Marcus Gabius Apicius , 1st cent., Roman gourmet. He squandered most of his large fortune on feasts and then, anticipating a need to economize, committed suicide. The cookbook called Apicius probably dates from a century later.
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Compote
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...that we seem to have only one recipe from Apicius as a reference point: Rapae ut Diu Servuntur...xxiv; Milham, 1969). Significantly, Apicius did not use the term compositum anywhere...yet it does follow in the tradition of Apicius and thus must be a recipe of considerable...
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Utensils, Cooking
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...is known that the Roman cookery book of Apicius was originally illustrated with pictures...the mysterious implements mentioned in Apicius looked like. But the fact that the original...evidence in itself that certain recipes in Apicius were not familiar even to most educated...
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Salad
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...ever since. The cookery writer Marcus Apicius of the first century C.E. offered several...poured over the salad. Another dressing Apicius used on lettuce was a cheese sauce that...dressings eventually became more complex. Apicius gave a recipe for one containing ginger...
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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...effects are cumulative. Fruit pickled in vinegar and salt. Apicius, a Roman gastronome who lived in the time of Columella, preserved...flavor enhancer, provided it is used in small quantities. Apicius suggested another sweet-sour conditio based on sapa and blackberry...
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Platina
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...ancient Roman agricultural writers, Pliny the elder, and Apicius (whom he calls "Caelius"), these final books or chapters...opposed to representatives of a courtly tradition. See also Apicius ; Chef, The ; Cookbooks ; Epicurus ; Italy ; Pythagoras...
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Professionalization
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...Yet after the appearance of the cookbook of Marcus Gavius Apicius, a first-century Roman epicure, no European cookbooks were...had become food specialists writing for public consumption. Apicius's emphasis on the over-dramatization of the act of eating...
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debauchery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...character in the Marquise de Sade's La Nouvelle Justine (1797): I admit that I have often wanted to imitate the debauchery of Apicius, that most famous of Roman gourmets. He had slaves thrown live into his fish ponds so that the flesh of his fish would achieve...
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Poaching
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...of poaching was very much a part of the recorded recipes of the ancient world. In one of the earliest cookbooks, the Roman Apicius's De re Coquinaria , recipes for delicacies like Isicia Plena (Dumplings of Pheasant) show that stiff forcemeat dumplings...
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