Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

etc., preserved in oil APER, see APRUS APEXABO, a blood sausage; cf. LONGANO Aphricocks, {Rx} 295 APHROS, {Rx} 295 APHYA, see APUA Apician Cheesecakes, p. 9 ---- cookery, influence, p. 16, 23 ---- Archetypus, p. 19 ---- manuscripts, p. 19, p. 253, seq. ---- Terminology, p. 22 ---- dishes, compared with modern dishes, p. 23 ---- sauces, p. 24 ---- Style of writing, p. 26 ---- research, p. 34 seq. Apiciana, Diagram of, p. 252 Apicius, pp. 7, 9 ---- The man, p. 9 ---- Athenaeus on, p. 9 ---- and Platina, p. 9 ---- Expedition to find crawfish, p. 9 ---- ships oysters, p. 10 ---- school, p. 10 ---- death, pp. 10, 11 ---- reflecting Roman conditions, pp. 14, 15 ---- authenticity of, pp. 18, 19 ---- writer, p. 26, {Rx} 176, 436 ---- confirmed by modern science, p. 33 ---- editors as cooks, p. 34 seq. Apion, writer, quoted by Athenaeus, p. 9 APIUM, celery, smallage, parsley. {Rx} 104 APOTHERMA (--UM, APODERMUM) hot porridge, gruel, pudding. {Rx} 57; cf. TISANA APPARATUS, preparation; ---- MENSAE, getting dinner ready Appetizers. {Rx} 174 and others. According to Horace, eggs were the first dishes served. The "moveable appetizer" of Apicius is very elaborate, p. 210 Appert, François, {Rx} 24, father of the modern canning methods Apples, {Rx} 22, 171 APRUS, APRUGNUS, wild boar. {Rx} 329-38. APRINA, PERNA, {Rx} 338, also APER APUA (ABUA, APHYA), a small kind of fish, anchovy, sprat, whiting, white bait, or minnow. {Rx} 138-9, 146, cf. Pliny. Apua is also a town in Liguria; its inhabitants APUANI AQUA, water; ---- CALIDA, hot w.; ---- CISTERNINA, well w.; ---- MARINA, sea w.; ---- NITRATA, soda w. for the cooking of vegetables; ---- RECENS; fresh, i.e., not stale w.; ---- PLUVIALE, rain w. AQUALICUS lower part of belly, paunch, ventricle, stomach, maw Archetypus Fuldensis, manuscript, see Apiciana Diagram ARCHIMAGIRUS, principal cook, chef, cf. Cooks' names ARIDA (--US, --UM) dry; ---- MENTHA, dry mint ARTEMISIA, the herb mugwort, motherwort, tarragon ARTOCREAS, meat pie ARTOPTES, Torinus' title of Book II; better: SARCOPTES, minces, minced meats ARTYMA, spice; cf. CONDIMENTUM Asa foetida,