History & The Arts
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
...De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking) is a fourth or fifth century CE compilation of earlier Latin cookery books, containing around 500 recipes. Watch Video 2 where Laurence Totelin prepares Apicius’ recipe for oxygarum, an aid to digestion. [MUSIC PLAYING] LAURENCE TOTELIN Today, I’m going to make an oxygarum. And an oxygarum is named after its main...