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Title: Apicius Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling ISBN: 0-486-23563-7 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Good Thing It Was A Gift
Comment: Spared the horror of paying good money for this, I concur with the other reviewers that this is a letdown.

The measurements have been tampered with and the reliability of the historicity is questionable.

There is a reductionist spirit here at work.

Rating: 4
Summary: Worth a Read
Comment: While others who have commented on the book take the author/translator to task for substitutions, mistranslations and other faults, I found that by and large the redactions were not terribly different from others I have read. These include several versions, so I am aquainted with Apicius and his recipes and have tried quite a few, and not from just one source.

What I find most praiseworthy about this book is Dommers Vehling's obvious interest in gastronomy in general and in ancient cookery in particular. He makes a fairly honest attempt to fill in some of the background for the reader. And although he may be guilty of having his own point of view, we must remember that he was writing over sixty years ago.

Dommers also gives the Latin names of the recipes, makes comments on many of them and makes references to other translattions of Apicius' De Re Coquinaria.

And so I feel that this book is worth reading, especially for the price.

Rating: 2
Summary: Not Worthy of Apicius
Comment: The main failure of this book is its lack of integrity regarding history & honesty of ingredients in the recipes. Beyond that, I am most offended by the AGGRESSIVE attempt @ revisionist/politically correct history; at trying to portray our epoch as anything other than A.D. (After Death of Christ). It seems as though even the culinary sciences are not free from the counter cultural revolutionary dogmatists.

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