Apicius

  • Marcus Gavius Apicius was a well known gourmet who lived during the first century CE.
  • De Re Coquinaria is a Roman Recipe Book attributed to him although it was written during the 4th or 5th century CE.

Roman Recipe Book

  • De Re Coquinaria ‘On the subject of Cooking’ contains 500 Recipes in 10 Books:
    1. Epimeles – The Careful Housekeeper
    2. Sarcoptes – The Meat Mincer
    3. Cepuros – The Gardener
    4. Pandecter – Many Ingredients
    5. Ospreon – Pulse
    6. Aeropetes – Birds
    7. Polyteles – The Gourmet
    8. Tetrapus – The Quadruped
    9. Thalassa – The Sea
    10. Halieus – The Fisherman
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