Recipe  

"Of ancient recipes, Apicius and Athenæus present a vast array. Soyer also, in his aspiring, cumbersome, and learned "Pantropheon," affords convenient access to the mysteries of the Greek and Roman kitchens. But the only way to pass intelligently upon the cookery of the ancients would be to try it. It is true that we do not possess their marvellous digestive powers ere their vigour became impaired by centuries of unbridled luxury."--The Pleasures of the Table (1902) by George Herman Ellwanger

"Cooking recipes might be among the oldest knowledge of mankind which was inherited further and shared unrestricted for adaption and improvement."--Sholem Stein