Food, Cookery, and Dining in Ancient Times by Soyer Alexis;
Author:Soyer, Alexis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1900820
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00
THE KITCHEN.
Let as enter together one of those vast kitchens, where two thousand years ago, the marvellous suppers of some rich senator were concocted. In every direction, slaves are coming loaded with meat, game, sea-fish, vegetables, fruit, and those expensive delicacies of which the dessert of the Romans was principally composed. The slaves have been over the principal markets of the city, especially those of the Trigemina gate, of the Metasudante,39 of the Suburd Way,40 and the Sacred Way.41 Each one lays his basket at the feet of the procurator or major-domo, who examines the contents, and registers them on his tablets;42 then he has placed in the pantry, contiguous to the dining room, those of the provisions which demand no preparation,43 but whose graceful and symmetrical arrangement is confided to two Æolian servants designated under the name of structores.44
All these porters are under the immediate orders of a confidential servant—obsonator—charged with buying the provisions necessary for the household, and who is obliged to make himself acquainted with the taste of his master and also of each guest, that he may procure nothing which they dislike.45
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