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Recipe: Gentlemen's Relish7 comments

lvegas wrote 4 weeks ago: Gentlemen’s Relish Anchovy lovers will love this very old English recipe for a famous savory spread … more →

Tags: Recipes, gentlemen's relish, Patum Peperium, Garum, anchovies. anchovy recipe, British recipes, ancient Roman food

The Mexican Egg Roll - Real junk food, by Apicius.2 comments

peterbowes wrote 1 month ago: The Long Jimmy This famed recipe, hidden for decades, will finally be published here this weekend. T … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes, Stories, Essays, Films, and Comix, Food

Honey, I'm Cooking!3 comments

Cynthia Bertelsen wrote 2 months ago: Zeus (Photo credit: Gord Spence) As an infant, Zeus, the Greek god of gods, fed on milk and honey, o … more →

Tags: American Cooking, Cakes, cooking, Desserts, English Cooking, honey, bartolomeo scappi, Cheesecake, Cooks

Week Two4 comments

justapinchofsalt wrote 2 months ago: Week Two, Day One: Back to class, still exhausted. I feel like Jim Carrey in “Yes Man,” … more →

Tags: bandabardò, divorzio all'italiana, GANZO, Grey's Anatomy, Mafia, piazza sant'ambrogio, ponte santa Trinita, sacred hearts, santa croce

A Hasa...2 comments

justapinchofsalt wrote 2 months ago: I am definitely in Tuscany now… the land of hoha-hola instead of coca-cola, hasa instead of ca … more →

Tags: Florence, Tuscany, Apicius International School of Hospitality, italian cooking, Siena, Sicily, sophia loren

Flame Grilled Chicken Dipped in Honey Chili and rolled in Potato Chips by Apicius1 comment

Clifton Evers wrote 3 months ago: Image: Lee Gass Gallery > Chicken and egg. Buy half a dozen chicken legs in the local supermarket … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes, surf recipe

Flathead in Butter with Lemon Thyme and Garlic by Apicius1 comment

Clifton Evers wrote 4 months ago: Dennis, he’s my eldest brother, he would always ride the bike – I always had to do the running – and … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes, Surfing, surf, Flathead, recipe

At the Tables of the Monks: In the Beginning (Part II)5 comments

Cynthia Bertelsen wrote 6 months ago: St. Benedict Eating with his Monks (Painting by Giovanni Sodoma) You’d never know a hermit started i … more →

Tags: italian cooking, Italy, Middle Ages, St Benedict, Monte Cassino, Rule of St. Benedict, Ancient Roman Cuisine, Menus, Medieval Monasteries

Interview with Enzo IACONIS (General Manager of the Hotel de Vigny)

theringhotel wrote 7 months ago: 1. Who are you? Enzo IACONIS General Manager of the Hotel de Vigny, a charming Boutique Hotel of 27 … more →

Tags: interviews, arc-de-triomphe, Arpege, Art Deco, Baretto Restaurant, boutique hotel, Champs-Elysées, ducasse, eiffel tower

Fried Bird

alaycook wrote 7 months ago: The light delectable tapas behind us, I felt the urge to offer some heartier fare. Frying food, incl … more →

Tags: Asides, Fine Fowl, Ruminations, Recipes, Europe, Rome, Fried Chicken, buttermilk, srirachi

Potato Pancakes (Latkes) with Chili & Cumin by Apicius5 comments

Clifton Evers wrote 8 months ago: Boulder, June 1989, 5.40 pm. Potato Pancakes (Latkes) with chili and cumin. Ravesy has lived in a la … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes

Coal Cooked Whiting with Lime & Honey & Chili Dust by Apicius5 comments

Clifton Evers wrote 8 months ago: Coal cooked whiting fillets, brushed with lime and honey and dusted with jicama chili dust, followed … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes

Lobster Omelet with Mace & Red Peppercorns by Apicius13 comments

Clifton Evers wrote 8 months ago: Fresh Lobster omelet, mace, red peppercorns and garlic chives at Crowdy Head, August 1958, 5.40 pm. … more →

Tags: Possible Recipes

Apicius, Paris14 comments

Food Snob wrote 11 months ago: The etymology of the name Apicius is a curious, complicated and controversial thing. There seems to … more →

Tags: France, Paris, restaurant reviews, Jean-Pierre Vigato, Michelin 2*, Paris restaurants

The History of Pears

isb10 wrote 11 months ago: Pears are a fruit with a complicated history. The first traces of the word pear appear in ancient Ce … more →

Tags: History of Pears, A Perfect Pear, Fruit, spiced pear souffle, King Henry III, China

Ridonkulously Expensive Books

Crystal King wrote 1 year ago: A lot of the Roman history books that I want to use for my book are extremely costly. Many of them a … more →

Tags: Books, Expensive, Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Reading, Reference, Research, TextBook, writing

NANOWRIMO Day 42 comments

Crystal King wrote 2 years ago: Wow. I wrung another 4077 words out today. Total for NANOWRIMO: 9408 or 19% of the way there. Not to … more →

Tags: writing, NaNoWriMo, Boston, roman history, Art, Cena Apicius, mfa, livia drusilla, Augustus

and now...3 comments

Crystal King wrote 2 years ago: I have a bushel of apples that I need to figure out what to do with. We went apple picking at Nashob … more →

Tags: writing, Recipes, roman history, Ancient History, Authors, Books, Reading, Apples, cooking

Friday Snippet: Cena Apicius ~ Obloquy II13 comments

Crystal King wrote 2 years ago: Cena Apicius is a working title for a historical fiction novel about the life of Marcus Gavius Apici … more →

Tags: writing, Writing excerpts, roman history, Historical Fiction, Friday Snippets, First Draft, Ancient History


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