Epulum

Epula saepe a mulieribus in coquina domestica parantur. Pictura ex circulo Ioannis Baptistae de Saive, 1563.

Epulum vel epulae (-arum, f., pl. tantum) sunt res vescendi quae certo diei tempore fit et cibum paratum comprehendit. Nomina ad certa epula in variis linguis adhibita variant, secundum culturam, tempus diei, et magnitudinem vel significationem rei.

Epula diei

Epulas trifariam semper, interdum quadrifariam dispertiebat, in iantacula et prandia et cenas comissationesque.

― Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, VIII 13.

Latine sunt nonnulla epula in die, inter quae sunt:

• ientaculum, epulum mane esum.
• prandium, epulum meridie esum.
• cena, epulum nocte esum.

Bibliographia

• Flandrin, Jean Louis. 2007. Arranging the Meal: A History of Table Service in France. Berkeleiae: University of California Press. ISBN 0520238850.
• Latham, Jean. 1972. The pleasure of your company: a history of manners & meals. Londinii: A. and C. Black. ISBN 0713612649
• Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Penguin. ISBN 1594200823.
• Rozin, Paul et al. 1998. "What causes humans to begin and end a meal? A role for memory for what has been eaten, as evidenced by a study of multiple meal eating in amnesic patients". Psychological Science vol. 9 pp. 392-396
• Seemüller, T.; Leonhäuser, I.-U.; Oltersdorf, U. 2005. "Nutrition and ambience, the state of the art: influence factors during a meal." In: Oltersdorf, U., ed. Consumer & Nutrition: Challenges and Chances for Research and Society (Karlsruhe: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Ernährung und Lebensmittel) pp. 195-206.
• This, Hervé. 2009. Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism. Novi Eboraci: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231144660.

Nexus interni

• cenaculum
• comissatio
• convivium
• symposium
• triclinium

Lucunculus

Haec stipula ad alimentum spectat. Amplifica, si potes!