Roman Cookery
Subtitle: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens
Publisher: Serif Publishing
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781897959398
Subjects: General cookery; National & regional cuisine; History; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; Regional & Ethnic - International
First sentence: This description of a banquet, in Apuleius' second-century AD novel The Golden Ass, paints the popular picture of Roman eating habits as unceasing gluttony in sumptuous marble dining-rooms filled with large numbers of guests and attendant slaves.