With Lucullus and Apicius
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…