HUMELBERGIUS SECUNDUS, Dick.

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Apician Morsels; Second edition of this entertaining Georgian miscellany on the culinary habits of the ancient Romans, weaving together cooking history, lore, witty anecdotes, and humorous insights. Among the most curious chapters are: "A Short History on the History of Dentiscalps, or Toothpicks", "The Miseries of Dining Abroad", and "On Indigestion Occasioned by Inebriety and other Causes". The book features two artworks by Cruikshank, one of them being a caricature of the Roman senate debating on a turbot. Apician Morsels was published 1829; this second edition is identical except for a different phrasing of the title page. The pseudonymous author (whose name appears on the title page of the 1829 edition,but not here) has been tentatively identified by scholars as the English novelist William Beckford (1760-1888) or the Irish chemist, mineralogist, and playwright Richard Chenevix (1774-1830). The pseudonym pays homage to Gabriel Hummelberger (1487-1544), the 16th-century editor of Apicius.

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