"To recreate this 2,000-year-old dish, Magnanimi started with a recipe from the 1st-Century AD Roman cookbook De Re Coquinaria, the only surviving recipe book from ancient Rome, which is attributed to Apicius, a wealthy gourmand once described by Pliny the Elder as "the most gluttonous gorger of all spendthrifts"."
I could have sworn I learned about Apicus from an ancient HN thread... but apparently it's never been linked on here before? Did moths eat the thread?
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm [English, 1936]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius
related: "Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543742
semi-related: "The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)"