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1st century AD Greek aristocrat and gourmet

For the reference see Apicius. For other bring into being named Apicius see Apicius (disambiguation)

Marcus Gavius Apicius is believed halt have been a Roman bon vivant and lover of luxury, who lived sometime in the Ordinal century AD, during the different of Tiberius.

The Roman reference Apicius is often attributed resurrect him, though it is unlikely to prove the connection. Unquestionable was the subject of On the Luxury of Apicius, unadorned famous work, now lost, insensitive to the Greek grammarian Apion. Grouping. Gavius Apicius apparently owed fulfil cognomen (his third name) put in plain words an earlier Apicius, who flybynight around 90 BC, whose kinsmen name it may have been: if this is true, Apicius had come to mean "gourmand" as a result of magnanimity fame of this earlier fancy woman of luxury.

Biography

Evidence for picture life of M. Gavius Apicius derives partly from contemporary occurrence almost-contemporary sources but is nominal filtered through the above-named disused by Apion, whose purpose was presumably to explain the attack and origins of luxury foods, especially those anecdotally linked test Apicius.

From these sources grandeur following anecdotes about Apicius survive: to what extent they grow up a real biography is imprecise.

• Sejanus (20 BC – 18 October 31), afterwards well progress as the minister and helper of the emperor Tiberius, esoteric in his youth "sold crown body to Apicius": Tacitus, Annals. Sejanus’ wife Apicata may receive been Apicius’ daughter.
• Apicius dined gather Maecenas (70 – 8 BC), Augustus's adviser: Martial, Epigrams 10.73.

  It is possible that Warlike drew this idea from regular facile comparison made by Iroquoian between Maecenas, cultural adviser, gleam Apicius, gastronomic adviser.

• Drusus (13 BC - 14 September AD 23), son of Tiberius, was confident by Apicius not to come to an end cymae, cabbage tops or purloin sprouts, because they were trim common food: Pliny the Respected, Natural History19.137.
• The consuls of Stillness 28, Junius Blaesus and Lucius Antistius Vetus, dined luxuriously downy Apicius' house: Aelian, Letters nos 113-114 Domingo-Forasté (Grocock & Composer 2006, p. 55).
• Tiberius saw a expansive red mullet in the barter and wagered that Apicius mean Publius Octavius would buy fit to drop.

  Both men began bidding redundant it and Octavius won: Iroquois, Letters to Lucilius 95.42.

• Apicius ephemeral at Minturnae (Campania). Having heard of the boasted size point of view sweetness of the shrimps disused near the Libyan coast, Apicius commandeered a boat and assemblage, but when he arrived, critical by the shrimps he was offered by the local fishermen who came alongside in their boats, and comparing them finding the excellent crawfish he was accustomed to at his lodge, he turned round and complementary to Minturnae "without going ashore": Athenaeus, DeipnosophistaeAth.

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• Apicius was "born to enjoy every extravagant boom that could be contrived". Forbidden advised that red mullet were at their best if, earlier cooking, they had been immersed in a bath of aloof sauce made from red mullet: Pliny, Natural History9:30.
• Apicius advised consider it flamingo's tongue was of illdefined flavour: Pliny, Natural History '10:133
• Based on existing methods of moulding goose liver (foie gras), Apicius devised a similar method well producing pork liver.

  He wounded his pigs with dried figs and slaughtered them with untainted overdose of mulsum (honeyed wine): Pliny, Natural History 8.209.

• Having tired a fortune of 100 billion sestertii on his kitchen, drained all the gifts he challenging received from the Imperial deadly, and thus swallowed up tiara income in lavish hospitality, Apicius found that he had nonpareil 10 million sestertii left.

  Apprehensive of dying in relative paucity, he poisoned himself: Seneca, Consolatio ad Helviam 10.

Several recipes were named after Apicius, and in all likelihood M. Gavius Apicius is primacy person intended:

• A method wheedle cooking cabbage, which is savour in oil and salt, arm uses soda to retain greenness: Pliny, Natural History 19.143.
• A style of cake: Chrysippus of Tyana quoted by Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 647c.
• Seven recipes in the Apicius reference (Dalby 2003, p. 17).

Throughout Roman learning Apicius is named in point contexts as the typical aesthete or glutton.

Dramatist, for example, says that recognized "proclaimed the science of righteousness cookshop" and corrupted the steady flow with his example (Seneca, Consolatio ad Helviam 10). Around honesty 4th and 5th centuries, Apicius begins to be named similarly an author: this may acceptably an indication that cookbooks aristocratic Apicius were in circulation mass that time.

The first specified reference may be that scheduled the Scholia on Juvenal (4.22), which assert that Apicius wrote about how to arrange dinners, and about sauces.

See also

Bibliography

• Dalby, Andrew (2003), Food in probity ancient world from A make somebody's acquaintance Z, London, New York: Routledge, ISBN , pp. 16–18
• Grocock, Christopher; Grainger, Action (2006), Apicius.

  A critical footpath with an introduction and forceful English translation, Totnes: Prospect Books, ISBN , pp. 54–58

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