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    De agri cultura ([deː ˈaɡriː kʊlˈtuːraː]), also known as On Farming or On Agriculture, is a treatise on Roman agriculture by Cato the Elder. It is the...
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    as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is often seen as the predecessor of baklava and...
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    Cato the Elder (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Origines, a now fragmentary work on the history of Rome. His work De agri cultura, a rambling work on agriculture, farming, rituals, and recipes, is...
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    The earliest extant cheesecake recipes are found in Cato the Elder's De Agri Cultura, which includes recipes for three cakes for religious uses: libum,...
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    tradition are mostly from the Roman agronomists: Cato the Elder's De agri cultura, Columella's De re rustica, Marcus Terentius Varro and Palladius. Attributed...
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    used for numerous purposes, as first described by Cato the Elder in De Agri Cultura, and later by Pliny the Elder. Cato mentions its uses as a building...
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    Civitate Dei VII 11 & 12. Frugifer CIL XII 336. Apuleius De Mundo 37. Cato De Agri Cultura 132; Paulus s. v. p. 51 M. CIL VI 3696. Wissowa (1912), p...
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    Cato the Elder. De Agri Cultura. p. 27. Curry A (February 2010). "A 9,000-Year Love Affair". National Geographic. 231 (2): 46. Josephus, De Bello Judaico...
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    history in many cultures. The Roman writer Cato (in his De agri cultura) and Columella (in his De re Rustica) mentioned preserving cabbages and turnips...
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    Empire, and was mentioned as early as Cato the Elder's 160 BCE piece De Agri Cultura. Traditionally, composting involved piling organic materials until...
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    than vino cotto. Mulled wine Vincotto Vin cuit Marcus Portius Cato, De Agri Cultura VII, XXIII, XXIV. Marcus Terentius Varro Rerum rusticarum I, 59-61...
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    tiropita. A recipe in Greek tradition recorded in Cato the Elder's De Agri Cultura (160 BC) describes placenta as a sweet layered cheese dish: Shape the...
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    Palatschinke (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    and Antiphanes first mentioned plakous. Cato the Elder's short work De agri cultura ("On Farming") from about 160 BC includes an elaborate recipe for placenta...
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    documentation of preserving cheese in brine appears in Cato the Elder's De Agri Cultura (2nd century BCE) though the practice was surely much older. It is...
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    tiny proportion is crafted by hand. Since at least the time of Cato's De Agri Cultura, basic pasta dough has been made mostly of wheat flour or semolina...
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    Ham (redirect from Jambon de Paris)
    century BC. Cato the Elder wrote about the "salting of hams" in his De agri cultura tome around 160 BC. There are claims that the Chinese were the first...
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  • incipit. "The Boastful Athlete", from Aesop's Fables Res Rusticae – De agri cultura Fumagalli, Giuseppe. L'ape latina: dizionarietto di 2948 sentenze,...
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    recipes are known starting in the 2nd century BCE with Cato the Elder's De Agri Cultura. Many authors of this period described eastern Mediterranean cooking...
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  • Associazione Tuscolana Amici di Frascati, 1978. Marcus Porcius Cato: De Agri Cultura, 160 B.C. "Gazzetta n. 240 del 14 ottobre 2011 (vai al sommario) MINISTERO...
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    When ready, honey is poured over the placenta. — Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 160 BC According to a number of scholars, koptoplakous (κοπτοπλακοῦς)...
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    Tigillum Sororium see also the section that follows. Livy VIII 9, 6 Cato De Agri Cultura 141 and 143. Acta Fratrum Arvalium ed. Henze p. CCXIV and 144 ff. Some...
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    160 BC, Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 BC), who wrote De Agri Cultura, notes the recipe for the most popular pie/cake called placenta. Also...
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  • beneficial effect of turning a cover crop into the earth. Cato wrote De Agri Cultura ("On Farming"), which recommended tillage, crop rotation, and the use...
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    Fig (redirect from Larme de Jaune)
    common food source for the Romans. Cato the Elder, in his c. 160 BC De Agri Cultura, lists several strains of figs grown at the time he wrote his handbook:...
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  • ISBN 978-3-468-11492-2. Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Cultura 1.5.4/5 Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Cultura 1.5.4/5 Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae 12...
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    5th century BC; as for ancient Rome, Cato in around 160 BC, in his De Agri Cultura, describes the process of salting the pork leg, in the way in Italy...
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    early Roman wine presses and how to build a press room in his work De Agri Cultura. The press Cato describes was known as a lever or beam press which...
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    described by Columella (Res rustica, I.8, XI.1, and XII.1), and by Cato (De Agri Cultura, cxlii–cxliii, focusing on the vilica; v on the vilicus). The vilica...
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    the Elder who included a recipe with the name "balloons" in his book De Agri Cultura, which was written in the second century BC. In that recipe, flour...
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    Augustine CD VII 11 end and 12. Frugifer CIL XII 336. Apuleius De Mundo 37. Cato De Agri Cultura 132; Paulus s. v. p. 51 M. CIL VI 3696. Wissowa above p. 105...
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