Cooking Apicius
Book description
Sally Grainger has gathered, in one convenient volume, her modern interpretations of 64 of the recipes in the original text. This is 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…
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1 author picked Cooking Apicius as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you want to know how the Ancient Romans lived, what better way to do it than eat the same food?
This is a great little recipe book. Sally Grainger has taken a bunch of Apicius’s Ancient Roman recipes, which are notoriously vague when it comes to actual instructions, and put them together so that you can recreate Roman cuisine in your own kitchen.
I’m not brave enough to have tried some recipes, and there are others I’m still not sure about (looking at you, garum sauce!), but the deep-fried honey fritters are amazing!
From Jennifer's list on bringing Ancient Rome alive.
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