Hydromel (Honey Water)
So back to our regularly scheduled postings on food and drink. I have a few more Roman recipes, then another Middle Eastern or 20…ok a mix-up or so of more period cooking! /wink. Today’s...
Monthly Archive: October 2012
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappie (1570)
I don’t do a lot of period Italian cooking. That will change soon! I adore this book. The Opera of Barolomeo Scappi (1570) Translated by T. Scully, is the compilation of recipes by Bartolomeo...
Curye on Inglysch
This book is as period as you can get with out actually going back a few centuries or so. Yet it is one of my least favorite books. Now this isn’t because the recipes...
The Classical Cookbook
This is a Roman cookbook written by Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger. Sally Grainger is noted for having written and published Cooking Apicus. I can not tell if she wrote the later half of...
More books!!!
Before heading out of town I’m going to do a quick review of four books I’ve purchased in the last 3 months. All have their pluses and minuses for period cooking and research. Each...
Boiled Octopus
This recipe is short sweet and very Roman. They liked their seafood as much then as we do today. The tastes may not have always been the same but for a high dinner Primus,...