Apicius

Apicius is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, usually thought to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century CE and written in a language that is in many ways closer to Vulgar than to Classical Latin.

The name "Apicius" had long been associated with excessively refined love of food, from the habits of an early bearer of the name, Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman gourmet and lover of refined luxury who lived sometime in the 1st century CE, during the reign of Tiberius. He is sometimes erroneously asserted to be the author of the book that is pseudepigraphically attributed to him.