ANTIPASTO, "Before the Meal," modern Italian appetizer; the prepared article usually comes in cans or glasses, consisting of tunny, artichokes, olives, etc., preserved in oil APER, see APRUS APEXABO, a blood sausage; cf. LONGANO Aphricocks, ℞ 295 APHROS, ℞ 295 APHYA, see APUA Apician Cheesecakes, p. 9 ---- cookery, influence, p. 16, 23 ---- Archetypus, p. 19 ---- manuscripts, p. 19, p. 253, seq. ---- Terminology, p. 22 ---- dishes, compared with modern dishes, p. 23 ---- sauces, p. 24 ---- Style of writing, p. 26 ---- research, p. 34 seq. Apiciana, Diagram of, p. 252 Apicius, pp. 7, 9 ---- The man, p. 9 ---- Athenaeus on, p. 9 ---- and Platina, p. 9 ---- Expedition to find crawfish, p. 9 ---- ships oysters, p. 10 ---- school, p. 10 ---- death, pp. 10, 11 ---- reflecting Roman conditions, pp. 14, 15 ---- authenticity of, pp. 18, 19 ---- writer, p. 26, ℞ 176, 436 ---- confirmed by modern science, p. 33 ---- editors as cooks, p. 34 seq. Apion, writer, quoted by Athenaeus, p. 9 APIUM, celery, smallage, parsley. ℞ 104 APOTHERMA (--UM, APODERMUM) hot porridge, gruel, pudding. ℞ 57; cf. TISANA APPARATUS, preparation; ---- MENSAE, getting dinner ready Appetizers. ℞ 174 and others. According to Horace, eggs were the first dishes served. The "moveable appetizer" of Apicius is very elaborate, p. 210 Appert, François, ℞ 24, father of the modern canning methods Apples, ℞ 22, 171 APRUS, APRUGNUS, wild boar. ℞ 329-38. APRINA, PERNA, ℞ 338, also APER APUA (ABUA, APHYA), a small kind of fish, anchovy, sprat, whiting, white bait, or minnow. ℞ 138-9, 146, cf. Pliny. Apua is also a town in Liguria; its inhabitants APUANI AQUA, water; ---- CALIDA, hot w.; ---- CISTERNINA, well w.; ---- MARINA, sea w.; ---- NITRATA, soda w. for the cooking of vegetables; ---- RECENS; fresh, i.e., not stale w.; ---- PLUVIALE, rain w. AQUALICUS lower part of belly, paunch, ventricle, stomach, maw Archetypus Fuldensis, manuscript, see Apiciana Diagram ARCHIMAGIRUS, principal cook, chef, cf. Cooks' names ARIDA (--US, --UM) dry; ---- MENTHA, dry mint ARTEMISIA, the herb mugwort, motherwort, tarragon ARTOCREAS, meat pie ARTOPTES, Torinus' title of Book II; better: SARCOPTES, minces, minced meats ARTYMA, spice; cf. CONDIMENTUM Asa foetida, use of ---- ℞ 15, p. 23 ASARUM, the Herb foalbit, foalfoot, coltsfoot, wild spikenard ASCALONICA CEPA, "scallion," young onion Asparagus, ASPARAGUS, p. 188, ℞ 72, ---- and figpecker, ℞ 132, ---- custard pie, ℞ 133 ASSATURA, a roast, also the process of roasting. ℞ 266-270 ASSUS, roast ASTACUS, a crab or lobster Athenaeus, writer, pp. 3, seq. ---- on Apicius, p. 10 Athene, Dish illustration, p. 158 ATRIPLEX, the herb orage, or orach