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description. Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight we're relaxing with a look into the oldest known cookbook in the Western world.

Cookery and dining in Imperial Rome by Epichias,

a bibliography, critical review and translation of the ancient book known as a pichius de re cocoonaria.

Now for the first time rendered into English by Joseph Dahmer's felling with a dictionary of technical terms, many notes, facsimiles of originals, and views and sketches of ancient culinary

objects made by the author. Let's begin.

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