Reading list for Roman cuisine

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| title=Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens
 
| author=Grant, M.
 
| date=1999
 
| publisher=Serif
 
| ISBN=1897959397
 
| comment=An excellent collection of recipes for preparing everyday Roman meals. [[User:Julilla Sempronia Magna|Julilla Sempronia Magna]]. A worthy companion to the Giacosa volume as this book avoids the Apicius recipes altogether, turning instead to Cato, Columella, Pliny, Athenaeus, Bassus, Galen and more. The Latin (or Greek) originals are not included, but are translated literally and then made into very workable recipes. [[User:M. Lucretius Agricola|Agricola]] 08:39, 5 June 2007 (CEST)
 
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| title=Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome
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| author=Patrick Faas, Shaun Whiteside trans.
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| date=2003
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| publisher=University of Chicago Press
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| comment=384 pages, 28 halftones, 29 line drawings [For sale in Canada and the USA only.] [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/233472.html Eight recipes on the publisher's website.]
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| comment=An excellent collection of recipes for preparing everyday Roman meals. [[User:Julilla Sempronia Magna|Julilla Sempronia Magna]]. A worthy companion to the Giacosa volume as this book avoids the Apicius recipes altogether, turning instead to Cato, Columella, Pliny, Athenaeus, Bassus, Galen and more. The Latin (or Greek) originals are not included, but are translated literally and then made into very workable recipes. [[User:M. Lucretius Agricola|Agricola]] 08:39, 5 June 2007 (CEST)
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The Classical Cookbook

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Dalby. (1996). ISBN 0714122084
An excellent book which combines historical discussion and classical recipes for satisfying results. Contributed by Julilla Sempronia Magna
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Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome

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Patrick Faas, Shaun Whiteside trans.. (2003). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226233472
384 pages, 28 halftones, 29 line drawings [For sale in Canada and the USA only.] Eight recipes on the publisher's website. Contributed by Agricola
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Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens

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Grant, M.. (1999). Serif. ISBN 1897959397
An excellent collection of recipes for preparing everyday Roman meals. Julilla Sempronia Magna. A worthy companion to the Giacosa volume as this book avoids the Apicius recipes altogether, turning instead to Cato, Columella, Pliny, Athenaeus, Bassus, Galen and more. The Latin (or Greek) originals are not included, but are translated literally and then made into very workable recipes. Agricola 08:39, 5 June 2007 (CEST)
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A Taste of Ancient Rome

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Gozzini Giacosa. (1994). Univ. of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226290328
Nicely translated and illustrated from Apicius, Cato, Columella, Juvenal, Martial and Petronius. Julilla Sempronia Magna. The bulk of the recipes come from Apicius and include the standard numbering from that work. The Latin is always included, then translated, then converted into a modern recipe. Agricola 08:39, 5 June 2007 (CEST)
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On-line Cookbooks

Legionary Rations by Paul Elliott

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