App 03 · Food Work in progress
APICIUS
The food app for the household. Plan the week together, find the right recipe, cook it step by step and shop from one shared list, so that “what shall we eat?” has an answer.
- Name
- After Apicius, the best-known cookbook of antiquity. Why Apicius?
- For
- Households: couples, families and friends who live together.
- Availability
- Work in progress.
01APICIUS
What it does
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Week planner
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and an evening meal for each day, planned together and updated for everyone as you go. One tap fills the empty slots with dishes you approve.
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Recipe library
Recipes sorted into eleven books, and found by meal, time, diet and cuisine. Servings scale, in Swedish measures.
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Cooking mode
One step at a time in large text, a timer for each step, and a screen that stays awake while you cook.
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Shopping list and pantry
Made from the week’s meals, merged and sorted by aisle. What you have at home is left out, and ticks show up for everyone at once.
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Ask Apicius
An assistant that suggests tonight’s dinner, or a recipe from what is in the pantry. Allergies are filtered out in code, never left to the model.
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Concordia
Everyone swipes the week’s dinner ideas on their own phone. When all say yes, it is a match, and it goes into the week.
02The name
Why APICIUS?
Marcus Gavius Apicius lived in Rome in the first century AD, in the days of the emperor Tiberius. He was famous for his love of fine food and his lavish dinners, and his name became another word for a gourmet.
A few hundred years later, Roman recipes were collected under his name. The collection is known simply as Apicius, or De re coquinaria, “On the art of cooking”, and it is one of the oldest cookbooks that has survived. It is divided into ten books with Greek names, from the basics of the larder to fish.
Our app sorts its recipes the same way: the ten books of Apicius, with their old names beside plain ones, and an eleventh for the recipes our users share. The Roman layer is a nod to history, never a hurdle. The plain name always comes first.
The eleven books
- Basics & pantryEpimeles
- MinceSarcoptes
- From the gardenCepuros
- One-potPandecter
- LegumesOspreon
- PoultryAeropetes
- Feasts & dessertsPolyteles
- MeatTetrapus
- SeafoodThalassa
- FishHalieus
- Community recipesConvivae
03Contact
Questions about APICIUS?
Write to us about the app, and we will answer by email.