Le Mesturet Almanac - a short history of cooking

From the first century to our time, what would later come to be French Cuisine gained considerable advances with the cuisine and know-how of the Romans. Rich Romans usually dined in a reclining position. They ate dishes that were unknown in Gaule and cooked recipes by one of the first famous chefs : Apicius. The dishes included such things as snails, oysters, dormouse, swan, violet jam, etc…