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- adjective Of or pertaining to Marcus Gavius Apicius, a notorious
Roman epicure . - adjective of food
Choice ,dainty ; (of people) eating only what ischoice , preferring the best or most expensive food.
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Examples
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Bankers often fill the coveted tables at Babbo and Del Posto, where the seven-course "tradizionale" menu goes for $145 and features dishes like Apician Spiced Ostrich with Date Conserva, Lovage and Barley Crisps.
Food Fight: Top Chef's Roast of Bankers Lands Him in Hot Water Robert Frank 2011
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Apician Morsels; or Tales of the Table, Kitchen and
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[1396] Apician tricks, and perfumed dishes, which Adrian the sixth Pope so much admired in the accounts of his predecessor Leo Decimus; and which prodigious riot and prodigality have invented in this age.
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Apician Morsels; or, Tales of the Table, Kitchen, and
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Apician mysteries; and it concludes with the syllabus of a series of thirteen lectures on cookery, which were to be delivered by the said Esquire.
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If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous palace with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, and can give Apician dinners, and get into Parliament, and deal in millions, then dishonesty is not disgraceful, and the man dishonest after such a fashion is not
An Autobiography 2004
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Without the interpolated instructions, your attempt to re-create this Apician classic might go horribly wrong.
When Gluttony Ruled! 2001
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"Very well, you are an _Apician_, you say: expound."
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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Such Apician food, so delicately touched with fire!
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous palace with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, and can give Apician dinners, and get into Parliament, and deal in millions, then dishonesty is not disgraceful, and the man dishonest after such a fashion is not a low scoundrel.
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883
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