Food

Apicii librorum X qui dicuntur De re coquinaria quae extant

by Apicius

The only cookbook to survive from ancient Rome: sauces, stuffed dormice, flamingo and a great deal of fish sauce. It carries the name of a famous gourmet, but was put together long after him. Some of the recipes can still be cooked, if you can find the ingredients.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The Latin Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #16439. In the public domain in the United States.