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This is kind of a strange question but....In my upcoming NaNoWriMo novel, I feature a character who works as a food stylist - he makes food pretty for menu and advertisement photos. Since I'm pretty much making-up the culture of this profession from a whole cloth, I've decided that a lot of the lingo/ideals are to be borrowed from classical architecture - Vitruvius. You know, using the golden ratio when piling mashed potatos, pediments of green beans, capitals of sliced garlic, etc.
My question is, before I go making up references to fake gourmands who were rough contemporaries of Vitruvius, were there actually any classical Roman food writers who set out the rules of cuisine and/or consumption of food? There has to be someone in the epicurean tradition that did this.
Failing an historical reference, what would be a humorous and/or apt name for a Roman gourmand? You see, if left to my own devices I'd come up with something like Gluttonus Maximus, and I don't want to make anyone wince in horror. |
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