The classical cookbook (new ed.)

• Date de parution : 07/05/2012
• Editeur : British Museum
• EAN : 9780714122755
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 170
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Anglais
• Thème : Vie pratique en langue anglaise
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

The major Roman culinary text, Apicius on Cookery, contains such dubious delicacies as larks' tongue, sterile sows' wombs, dormice, a plethora of birds, warblers, parrots, turtle doves, peacocks, flamingos, sea food such as sea urchins, porpoises, jellyfish. They are all delightfully exotic and... Voir plus

The major Roman culinary text, Apicius on Cookery, contains such dubious delicacies as larks' tongue, sterile sows' wombs, dormice, a plethora of birds, warblers, parrots, turtle doves, peacocks, flamingos, sea food such as sea urchins, porpoises, jellyfish. They are all delightfully exotic and suit the stereotype of the decadent Roman gourmet who chose the most bizarre of foods because they were rare and expensive and fashionable, quite forgetting about taste.