The world’s oldest surviving cookbook is a collection of Imperial Roman recipes, compiled around the 1st century AD. In the intervening millennia the book, Apicius De Re Coquinaria, has ...

Early cookbooks weren’t just about food—they documented culture, medicine, religion, and trade. Many of the oldest cookbooks give us a fascinating look into what ancient people ate and how they ...

Apicius himself, if we regard the most famous of the trio, was quite a character. He loved to cook and eat. The latter was a requirement in those days for any man to become a cook.

The world's oldest surviving cookbook is a collection of Imperial Roman recipes, compiled around the first century A.D. In the intervening millennia the book, "Apicius De Re Coquinaria," has ...

The Apicius cookbook has a simple fried dough recipe that calls for the cook to combine coarse wheat flour (or semolina) with water or milk over heat until it's a thick porridge.

The recipe in Apicius seemed like a good place to start. The text was named after a first-century A.D. gourmand, who was almost certainly not its author. Apicius’ origins are unclear, but we ...

These are just a few of the (admittedly more obscure) recipes in Apicius de re Coquinaria, a cookbook from Roman times published in the first century. Check it out here. It was named for, and ...

Apicius' Famous Stuffed Dates 24 dates Walnuts or almonds Fine-grain sea salt 1 cup honey Using a small paring knife, make a slice in the side or and remove the stone from the dates.

In ancient Rome, food was a bargaining chip for position for slaves and nobles alike. At the center of Feast Of Sorrow is real-life nobleman Apicius, who inspired the oldest surviving cookbook.