The Pleasures of the Table

Gastronomy from ancient days to modern times — the feasts of Greece and Rome, the great chefs and their schools, the literature of the table, and Ellwanger's own views on the aesthetics of dinner-giving.

With Lucullus and Apicius

9 pages in this part of The Pleasures of the Table.

With Lucullus and Apicius (Whether woodcock or partridge)

"Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought…

With Lucullus and Apicius (That prevailed during)

that prevailed during the Republic and the Empire, when fabulous revenues were squandered at a single feast, and gluttony and intemperance…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Romans

In the mid-Ocean, or where Tiber pays With broader Course his Tribute to the Seas.” 1 It was then that the rich Romans had at their villas…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Mediterranean

This greatly valued fish was the European Mullus barbatus, one of the forty or more different species of the red mullet, found chiefly in…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Roman

The huge tunny and sturgeon, the tiny anchovy, and, in fact, nearly every denizen of the ocean appeared upon the Roman tables in some form…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Trimalchio

Nor were the affluent nobles and business men far behind the triumvirs, consuls, and emperors in their ruinous manner of living. Autocracy…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Mæcenas

Horace in particular, a scholar, poet, and man of the world, the friend of Mæcenas, and an onlooker and frequenter of society, may be…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Claudius

The great dining-room of Claudius, termed "Mercury," was constructed on an equally magnificent scale. But this was eclipsed by Nero's…

With Lucullus and Apicius: Commodus

It History has recorded less of the excesses of the table during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, and…

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