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Apicius, Marcus Gabius |
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Apicius, Marcus Gabius (əpĭsh`əs), 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hardly--but they illustrate the sense of invention that keeps cooking so gratifying for so many; further, they help stake out a middle ground somewhere between "I got this tank of fizzy lifting gas from my dad's friend at NASA" and "this is the exact way Apicius made it. The salty fermented fish sauce of Apicius (garum) is thus linked to the anchovy of La Varenne across the centuries, despite the fact that the two were used in entirely different contexts. |
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