Hey - My E-mail got hijacked - sorry for inconvenience. The mass mailing going out has something to do with shopping. I am fixing it. Again, Sorry for the...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Nov 7, 2008 5:14 am
A former classmate of mine (who's papers tended to be brilliant and/or interesting) has written a book on drugs in antiquity. He seems to feel that many...
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Castus Valerius
castus_valerius
Dec 7, 2008 8:44 am
Hi All, I recently bought a copy of "Cooking Apicius" and am making one of the recipies out of it for a cooking competition where the required ingredient is...
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bonho1962
Dec 7, 2008 9:27 am
Hello Dennis, you can fin an English version at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Apicius/6*.html#236 note1 Have fun with the cooking, Rainer ...
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sallygrain@...
sallygrain
Dec 7, 2008 10:37 am
Hi 8.8.1 Uncooked sauce for boiled chicken: put dill seed, dried mint, and laser root into a mortar,pour on vinegar, add date(syrup), pour on liquamen,a little...
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Dennis Hancock
castus_valerius
Dec 7, 2008 11:14 am
Thanks so much, Thought you might like to know I won the competition. One of the other entrys was Apicius 6.8.5 Alea iacta est. ...
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RM
apicius@...
Dec 7, 2008 11:39 am
In many editions this recipe is 6.9.1 (not 6.8.1). It is very similar to 7.6.13 where you can find even pepper and honey. RM [Non-text portions of this message...
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Samia al-Kaslaania
idlesamia
Dec 7, 2008 12:59 pm
Asofoetida is Latin for "putrid garlic" . :) That is the name of the spice though, I've bought it at a grocery co-op in Minneapolis. There is nothing else like...
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Jim Van Kollenburg
apollosfriend
Dec 7, 2008 1:17 pm
... There is ... quite ... It is easily available at any Indian grocery, if you live in a big city. The product may be labelled as "Hing." Sometimes the...
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lilinah@...
anahita_al_s...
Dec 7, 2008 4:42 pm
... SNIP Dennis probably already knows, and Sally definitely knows, but what is not clear from some of the other posts in this thread is: First, that laser is...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Dec 7, 2008 5:16 pm
Asofoetida is Latin for "putrid garlic" . :)Â Just to be clear, "Asafoetida" or "Assa foetida" is not a Roman term, but a Neo-Latin one. Foetida does indeed...
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Warrior Chef
shadowhyrst
Dec 7, 2008 7:38 pm
c Available at almost all Indian grocery outlets--I get mine at a very well-stocked Indian grocery [the size of an AP or Ralphs or other large chain...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Dec 7, 2008 8:09 pm
Look int heir herbal/spice sections, often packaged or available as 'Irani Hing' or Pathani Hing` depending upon country of origin, or sometimes just 'Hing'. ...
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Gabor Bihari
szkitaszarvas
Dec 8, 2008 2:08 pm
Hi All, Yes, the spice called hing is the most easily available source of asafoetida, but not the best. I have already used the pure resin sometimes, it looks...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Dec 8, 2008 5:25 pm
Yes, the spice called hing is the most easily available source of asafoetida, but not the best. I have already used the pure resin sometimes, it looks like...
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sallygrain@...
sallygrain
Dec 8, 2008 8:34 pm
Hi all ? Buy the resin if you can and do what Apicius suggest.??Store it with?a few (cannot remember how many?) pinenuts and leave to mature. Then use the nuts...
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Samia al-Kaslaania
idlesamia
Dec 9, 2008 3:29 am
Asafoetida is not a resin as I understand it, it's the ground bulb of a giant fennel (one of the edible varieties). Is hing something different? Samia...
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Warrior Chef
shadowhyrst
Dec 9, 2008 4:05 am
Hing is the converted product that has been blended in with rice or barley/wheat flour. The bulb is somewhat like ginger, except that it become more resinous....
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xirot1
Dec 17, 2008 12:10 pm
Dear Colleague: We would like to bring to your attention ICAFs 28th Conference on Fish & Seafood, Anthropological and Nutritional Perspectives, that will be ...
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RM
apicius@...
Dec 20, 2008 4:16 pm
I just found a very interesting website describing the "Colatura d'alici di Cetara". Cetara is a small town near Salerno / Italy. The "colatura d'alici" is...
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correus
Dec 20, 2008 10:46 pm
COOL!!!! Thanks for passing this along. And a Merry Christmas to all of you as well. Correus ... From: RM <apicius@...> Subject: [Apicius] Liquamen /...
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Joe Geranio
tiberius.aug...
Dec 27, 2008 1:03 am
The Julio-Claudian Iconographic Association has been on yahoo groups for over two years with 338 members. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/julioclaudian/ We...
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Karen Summerfelt-Hume
chagankhulan
Jan 16, 2009 5:46 am
Greetings to the list, I was pointes to your list because of the POmpeii brazier pictures. I am doing some early period research and some of the cultures...
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ranvaig@...
ranvaig
Jan 18, 2009 12:39 am
... This is not *my* brazier, but pictures of a reproduction found on the net. http://flickr.com/photos/8048432@N05/2468037285 ...
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richard robinson
helmetwise
Jan 18, 2009 2:08 am
ranvaig i was happy as u when i first saw the brazier also/Â I had one constructed on based on your linked photos in fact. it was ages later that i came...
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Karen Summerfelt-Hume
chagankhulan
Jan 18, 2009 4:47 am
Thank you, Ranvaig! The pictures are great! I guess I'll have to do a bit more digging for information but it will be fun. Several people in our Barony...
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Courtois Julien
ivlianvs@...
Jan 26, 2009 4:38 pm
Hello list members! Exactly 10 years ago today was the first message exchanged on the Apicius-List (then hosted by ONElist) :-) Thanks for the good "work" and...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Jan 26, 2009 5:00 pm
Mehercle, has it really been that long? How the tempus doth fugit! To another 10 years of wonderful sweet-salty-peppery-umami only slightly poisonous sauces! ...
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Kevin McDermott
coivinix
Jan 27, 2009 12:56 pm
... SALVE IVLIANE GRATIAS AGO TIBI and that's about the extent of my latinity...we'll let IVSTINVS correct me, if necessary :>) Congratulations and thanks for...
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jdm314@...
jdm314
Feb 8, 2009 4:43 pm
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/27/dining/1231546403635/franks-steak.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28mini.html A recipe which, according...
