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We are cooking Roman food for dinner. Roman food is very similar to our food, aside from the boiled-down wine sauce and the fermented fish paste. And the complete lack of New World delicacies such as tomatoes and bananas and maize.
On the menu tonight:
Gustatio (appetizer): Cucumber salad, spelt flour bread, omelet with vegetables
Mensa Prima (main course): Fish cooked with onion, celery, carrots, and dill and a puls (a barley or lentil based dish, sometimes with honey, young cheese, or sausage).
Mensa Secunda (second course/desert): Cheese and sweet Marsala wine
This is regular meal of a rich family taken from Columella, Pliny, and Horace in addition to archaeological data. It is not meant to replicate the delicacies of Apicius or Petronius.
There are some archaeological questions that I hope this experiment with Roman food will answer -- and I won't bore you with them. Mostly, though, I'm just hoping that the fish is good, because I'm pretty hungry. Will post pictures either here or on blog.
Come to think of it, why am I writing this here? Weird. Oh well.
On the menu tonight:
Gustatio (appetizer): Cucumber salad, spelt flour bread, omelet with vegetables
Mensa Prima (main course): Fish cooked with onion, celery, carrots, and dill and a puls (a barley or lentil based dish, sometimes with honey, young cheese, or sausage).
Mensa Secunda (second course/desert): Cheese and sweet Marsala wine
This is regular meal of a rich family taken from Columella, Pliny, and Horace in addition to archaeological data. It is not meant to replicate the delicacies of Apicius or Petronius.
There are some archaeological questions that I hope this experiment with Roman food will answer -- and I won't bore you with them. Mostly, though, I'm just hoping that the fish is good, because I'm pretty hungry. Will post pictures either here or on blog.
Come to think of it, why am I writing this here? Weird. Oh well.