In the latter times, however, they had many authors on the subject as well as the Greeks, and the practitioners were men of some Science, but, unhappily for us, their compositions are all lost except that which goes under the name of Apicius concerning which work and its author, the prevailing opinion now seems to be, that it was written about the time of Heliogabalus, by one Clius, (whether Aurelianus is not so certain) and that Apicius is only the title of it. Īs to the Romans they would of course borrow much of their culinary arts from the Greeks, though the Cook with them, we are told, was one of the lowest of their slaves. And as Ditetics were esteemed a branch of the study of medicine, as also they were afterwards, so many of those authors were Physicians and the Cook was undoubtedly a character of high reputation at Athens. but afterwards they possessed many authors on the subject, as may be seen in Athenus. A few hints concerning Cookery may be collected from Homer, Aristophanes, Aristotle, &c. The Greeks probably derived something of their skill from the East, (from the Lydians principally, whose cooks are much celebrated, ) and something from Egypt. Without beginning ab ovo on a subject so light (a matter of importance, however, to many a modern Catius or Amasinius), by investigating the origin of the Art of Cookery, and the nature of it as practised by the Antediluvians without dilating on the several particulars concerning it afterwards amongst the Patriarchs, as found in the Bible, I shall turn myself immediately, and without further preamble, to a few cursory observations respecting the Greeks, Romans, Britons, and those other nations, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with whom the people of this nation are more closely connected.
Your affectionate friend, and most obliged servant, St. Or at least as a public testimony of that profound regard wherewith I am, I intreat the favour of you, however, to accept for once this short payment in lieu of better, Indeed, considering your respectable situation in life, and that diffusive sphere of knowledge and science in which you are acting, it must be exceedingly difficult for any one, how well furnished soever, completely to answer your just, or even most moderate demands.
#PHYSICUS CARIA FULL#
I return your very curious Roll of Cookery, and I trust with some Interest, not full I confess nor legal, but the utmost which your Debtor, from the scantiness of his ability, can at present afford. Illustrated with NOTES, And a copious INDEX, or GLOSSARY.Ī MANUSCRIPT of the EDITOR, of the same Age and Subject, with other congruous Matters, are subjoined. Presented afterwards to Queen ELIZABETH, by EDWARD Lord STAFFORD,Īnd now in the Possession of GUSTAVUS BRANDER, Esq. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King RICHARD II,
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