Apician Morsels; or Tales of the Table, Kitchen, and Larder: with reflections on the Dietic Productions of Early Writers; on the Customs of the Romans in Eating and Drinking; on Table Ceremonies, and Rules of Conviviality and Good Breeding; with select Epicurean Precepts, Gourmond Maxims and Medicines, &c. &c.
London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1834. Duodecimo (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), viii, 348 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one additional plate by Robert Cruikshank. Second? edition. The first was issued in 1829, A humorous, but informative look at the history of food. The author's pseudonymous name, "Dick Humelbergius Secundus", is an allusion to Gabriel Hummelberger (Humelbergius), the sixteenth-century annotator of the work of the Roman chef Apicius. Some have.....