CARICA (---- FICUS) a dried fig from Caria, a reduction made of the
fig wine was used for coloring sauce, similar to our caramel color,
which see
CARIOTA, CARYOTA, a kind of large date, figdate; also a wine, a date
wine; ℞ 35
CARO, flesh of animals, ℞ 10; ---- SALSA, pickled meat
CAROTA, CAROETA, carrot; ℞ 121-3
Carthusian monks, inventors of the CHARTREUSE, ℞ 68, see also
Carême
CARTILAGO, gristle, tendon, cartilage
CARYOPHYLLUS, clove
Casa di Forno, Pompeii, "House of the Oven," illustration, p. 2
CASEUS, cheese; ℞ 125, 303; ---- BUBULUS, cow's cheese; ----
VESTINUS, ℞ 126
CASTANEA, chestnut, ℞ 183 seq.
Catesby, writer, ℞ 322
Catfish, ℞ 426
CATTABIA, see Salacaccabia
Caul Sausage, Kromeski, ℞ 45
CAULICULOS, ℞ 87-92; also Col-- cul-- and coliclus
Cauliflower, ℞ 87
Caviare, see STYRIO
Celery, ℞ 104
Celsinus, a Roman, ℞ 376-7
CENA, COENA, a meal, a repast; CENULA, a light luncheon; ---- RECTA,
a "regular" meal, a formal dinner, usually consisting of GUSTUS,
appetizers and light ENTRÉES, the CENA proper which is the PIÈCE DE
RESISTANCE and the MENSÆ SECUNDAE, or desserts. The main dish was
the CAPUT CENAE; the desserts were also called BELLARIA or MENSAE
POMORUM, because they usually finished with fruit. Hence Horace's
saying "AB OVO USQUE AD MALA" which freely translated and modernized
means, "Everything from soup to nuts."
---- AUGURALIS, ---- PONTIFICALIS, ---- CAPITOLINA, ---- PERSICA,
----SYBARITICA, ---- CAMPANAE, ---- CEREALIS, ---- SALIARIS,
----TRIUMPHALIS, ---- POLINCTURA are all names for state dinners,
official banquets, refined private parties each with its special
significance which is hard to render properly into our language
except by making a long story of it
---- PHILOSOPHICA, ---- PLATONICA, ---- LACONICA, ---- RUSTICA,
----CYNICA are all more or less skimpy affairs, while the ---- ICCI
is that of a downright miser. ---- HECATES is a hectic meal,
----TERRESTRIS a vegetarian dinner, ---- DEUM, a home-cooked meal,
and a ---- SATURNIA is one without imported dishes or delicacies, a
national dinner
---- NOVENDIALIS is the feast given on the ninth day after the
burial of a dead man when his ashes were scattered while yet warm
and fresh. ---- DUBIA, ℞ 139, is the "doubtful meal" which
causes the conscientious physician Lister so much worry
The CENA, to be sure, was an evening meal, the PRANDIUM, a noon-day
meal, a luncheon, any kind of meal; the JENTACULUM, a breakfast, an
early luncheon; the MERENDA was a snack in the afternoon between the
meals for those who had "earned" a bite
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