Ancient Roman staples include bread and wine, however, Romans also ate foods from other cultures. The lower classes, however, did not have such luxurious dinners. The poor might only eat a simple meal of vegeta
The first course consisted of stimulants, eggs, or lettuce and olives; the second, which was the main course, consisted of meats, fowl, or fish, with condiments; the third course was made up of fruits, nuts, sweetmeats, and cakes.At elaborate dinners the guests assembled, each with his ...
On this Sicily travel experience, you'll discover an Italian island with more than 3,000 years of history. Once home to a Greek colony, a Roman province, an Arab emirate, a Norman kingdom, and more, traces of ancient conquerors can still be found in Sicily’s well-preserved ruins, eleg...
Once the flour was made, the bread would be made by mixing dough and kneading it with both hands or even the feet in large dough-kneading containers. To add some flavor, additives such as yeast, salt, spices, milk, and sometimes eggs were added just before the bread was cut into baking...
Breakfast and Lunch Roman Style For those who could afford it, breakfast (jentaculum), eaten very early, would consist of salted bread, milk, orwine, and perhaps dried fruit, eggs, or cheese. It was not always eaten. The Roman lunch (cibus meridianusorprandium), a quick meal eaten arou...
eggs, cheese and the amino acids available in the tandem staples of bread and beer. Mice and hedgehogs were also eaten and a common way to cook the latter was to encase a hedgehog in clay and bake it. When the clay was then cracked open and removed, it took the prickly spikes with ...
With around 50 artefacts on display, including loans from the Louvre, ‘Drinking with the Gods’ centres on the role of wine in Graeco-Roman culture, with a large part dedicated to Dionysus, the god who gave wine to humans and – perhaps more importantly – taught us to make it ourselves...
Decorated ostrich eggs were luxury items in antiquity. They were engraved, painted, and embellished with ivory, precious metals and faience fittings. They have been found primarily in elite funerary contexts from Mesopotamia and the Levant to the wider Mediterranean throughout the region’s Bronze an...
Welcome to the final post in The World of An Altar of Indignities, the blog series in which we’ve explored some of the research that went into our latest dramatic and romantic comedy set in the Roman Empire. If you missed Part X on the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, you can read that by...
and eggs.THE waitress inquired shyly as to my nationality - they don't get many visitors in this part of the world - and the owner sent over a carafe of wine on the house.Later I sat at a cafe with a glass of Porto and watched two country boys ride home on horseback, heads bent...