Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1228302 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 57 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #824420. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.1228302). Program note. Â I am a foodie. Â I love all kinds of food. Â I especially relish the experience of trying new dishes found at cutting-edge restaurants. Â But I am also a fan of traditional cooking at a local trattoria or bistro. Â I also love to cook in my own kitchen, for family and friends. Â I used to make Chinese food, but after spending a year in Italy as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, 1986-87, I became a convert to Italian cuisine. Â These days I basically only cook Italian. Â My teachers are Marcella Hazan, Lidia Bastianich, and the ubiquitous 60-Minute Gourmet author, Pierre Franey. Â So when I recently came upon this ancient cookbook, De re coquinaria by Marcus Gavius Apicius, AD 14-37, I immediately thought I would set the recipes from the book into a song cycle for tenor and piano.There are ten chapters in the book. Â But there is a dispute as to whether Books IX and X were written by someone else other than Apicius. Â With that in mind, I am only setting recipes from the first eight books, or chapters.I. Epimeles - The Diligent Cook - Fine spiced wineII. Sarcoptes - The Butcher - Brain sausageIII. Cepuros - The Gardener - For digestion and inflammationIV. Pandectes - Miscellanea - Smelt pie or sprat custardV. Ospreon - Legumes - Peas, supreme styleVI. Aeropetes - The Fowl - Crane or duck with turnipsVII. Polyteles - The Sumptuous - Roasting, plainVIII. Tetrapus - The Quadruped - Stuffed boiled suckling pig.
