Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

close contact with Greece was for many years much farther advanced in art of cookery than the North Lucania, district of lower Italy whence came the Lucanian sausage, p. 172, {Rx} 61; see also LONGANO LUCIUS FLUVIALIS, a river fish, perch, or pike, according to some; Platina also calls it LICIUS. Cf. MERULA Lucretian Dish, {Rx} 151 Lucullus, Roman general, proverbial glutton, has a place here because of his importation into Rome of the cherry, which he discovered in Asia Minor. He cannot be expected to be represented in the Apicius book because he died 57 B.C. LUCUSTA, see LOCUSTA LUMBUS, loin, (Ger. LUMMEL), {Rx} 286; LUMBELLI, {Rx} 255 Lung, {Rx} 291-2 LUPINUS, lupine LUPUS, fish, {Rx} 158 M MACELLARIUS, MACELLINUS, market man, butcher MACELLUM, market MACERO, to soak, soften, steep in liquor, macerate; MACERATUM, food thus treated MACTRA, trough for kneading dough MAGIRUS, MAGEIROS, cook, see COQUUS MALABATHRUM --THRON, {Rx} 32, 399 Mallows, {Rx} 86 MALUS, fruit tree, apple tree; ---- PUNICORUM, pomegranate; ---- ASSYRIA, ---- CITRUS DECUMANA, one of the larger citrus fruits; ---- MEDICA, citron tree; ---- CYDONIA, quince tree MALUM, fruit, an apple, but quinces, pomegranates, peaches, oranges, lemons, and other fruits were likewise designated by this name. {Rx} 18, 20. See also CITRUM It is remarkable that Apicius does not specifically speak of lemons and oranges, fruits that must have grown in Italy at his time, that are so indispensable to modern cookery MALUM PUNICUM, {Rx} 20, 21; ---- CYDONIUM, {Rx} 21; ---- GRANATUM, {Rx} 20; ---- MEDICUM, {Rx} 24; ---- ROSEUM, {Rx} 178, 171. This name, which according to Schuch simply stands for a rose-colored apple, has led to the belief that the ancients made pies, etc., of roses. Today a certain red-colored apple is known as "Roman Beauty." We concur in Schuch's opinion, remembering, however, that the fruit of the rose tree, namely the hip, dog-briar, or eglantine, is made into dainty confections on the Continent today. It is therefore quite possible that MALUM ROSEUM stands for the fruit of the rose MANDUCO, to chew, to munch, to enjoy food by munching; a