Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

meat CAROTA, CAROETA, carrot; {Rx} 121-3 Carthusian monks, inventors of the CHARTREUSE, {Rx} 68, see also Carême CARTILAGO, gristle, tendon, cartilage CARYOPHYLLUS, clove Casa di Forno, Pompeii, "House of the Oven," illustration, p. 2 CASEUS, cheese; {Rx} 125, 303; ---- BUBULUS, cow's cheese; ---- VESTINUS, {Rx} 126 CASTANEA, chestnut, {Rx} 183 seq. Catesby, writer, {Rx} 322 Catfish, {Rx} 426 CATTABIA, see Salacaccabia Caul Sausage, Kromeski, {Rx} 45 CAULICULOS, {Rx} 87-92; also Col-- cul-- and coliclus Cauliflower, {Rx} 87 Caviare, see STYRIO Celery, {Rx} 104 Celsinus, a Roman, {Rx} 376-7 CENA, COENA, a meal, a repast; CENULA, a light luncheon; ---- RECTA, a "regular" meal, a formal dinner, usually consisting of GUSTUS, appetizers and light ENTRÉES, the CENA proper which is the PIÈCE DE RESISTANCE and the MENSÆ SECUNDAE, or desserts. The main dish was the CAPUT CENAE; the desserts were also called BELLARIA or MENSAE POMORUM, because they usually finished with fruit. Hence Horace's saying "AB OVO USQUE AD MALA" which freely translated and modernized means, "Everything from soup to nuts." ---- AUGURALIS, ---- PONTIFICALIS, ---- CAPITOLINA, ---- PERSICA, ----SYBARITICA, ---- CAMPANAE, ---- CEREALIS, ---- SALIARIS, ----TRIUMPHALIS, ---- POLINCTURA are all names for state dinners, official banquets, refined private parties each with its special significance which is hard to render properly into our language except by making a long story of it ---- PHILOSOPHICA, ---- PLATONICA, ---- LACONICA, ---- RUSTICA, ----CYNICA are all more or less skimpy affairs, while the ---- ICCI is that of a downright miser. ---- HECATES is a hectic meal, ----TERRESTRIS a vegetarian dinner, ---- DEUM, a home-cooked meal, and a ---- SATURNIA is one without imported dishes or delicacies, a national dinner ---- NOVENDIALIS is the feast given on the ninth day after the burial of a dead man when his ashes were scattered while yet warm and fresh. ---- DUBIA, {Rx} 139, is the "doubtful meal" which causes the conscientious physician Lister so much worry The CENA, to be sure, was an evening meal, the PRANDIUM, a noon-day meal, a luncheon, any kind of meal; the JENTACULUM, a breakfast, an early luncheon; the MERENDA