Somewhere between the steam of the kitchen hearth and the glitter of banquet halls, the Romans created small pleasures that rarely make it into history books ...Honey ... References to desserts made of fresh and dried fruit appear in Columella and Pliny.
Columella’s agricultural treatise De Re Rustica attracts far less attention than its scope and interest would suggest ...Almost everything known about Columella comes from his own writings ... Pliny the Elder frequently cites Columella.