Literary notes about Culinary (AI summary)
The word "culinary" has been deployed with notable flexibility in literature, spanning from its literal association with food preparation to metaphorical applications reflecting cultural practices. In historical and technical texts like those attributed to Apicius, "culinary" underscores both the ingenuity and the labor-intensive nature of ancient cookery techniques [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], establishing a technical lexicon for understanding recipe formulation and food culture. Meanwhile, in more narrative or reflective contexts, authors use "culinary" to evoke the sensory richness of food as well as to comment on social and gender roles, as seen in depictions of food abundance, cultural habits, or even humorous critiques [8, 9, 10, 11]. Thus, across genres and epochs—from the meticulous exposition of recipes to whimsical literary allusions—the term "culinary" evidences its enduring capacity to blend the practical with the poetic in the exploration of nourishment and cultural identity.
- [1] Remarkable culinary ingenuity, resembling in principle the North American Indian method of cooking whitefish wrapped in clay.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - Hence, the culinary conditions of ancient Rome were exactly the opposite of today’s state of affairs.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - His culinary procedures required a prodigious amount of labor and effort on the part of the cooks and their helpers.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - 370 LIQUAMEN, any kind of culinary liquid, depending upon the occasion.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - He has translated in the article quoted a number of Apician formulæ; and betrays an unusual culinary knowledge.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - But why should the Greeks who in their balmy days were so far in advance of Rome in culinary matters go there for such information?
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - “The human interest—because of the amazing mentality and the culinary ingenuity of the ancients revealed to us from an altogether new angle.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - The meal was a culinary success.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - It means not alone perfection of furnishing, of service, of culinary skill, but also of personal charm, of tact.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly Autumn.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - in this state I am informed that the female is not permitted to eat, nor to touch any article of a culinary nature or manly occupation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
