Retro recipes:"Archeo-cook" Cristina Conte recreates recipes from ancient Rome, including cheesecake. Giorgio Franchetti Handy snack:Romans preferred their cheesecake cut into cubes, eaten as a snack between meals. Giorgio Franchetti Full circle:Food historians say old Roman recipes were adapted as th...
Here are two ancient recipes for porridge from "On Agriculture," written by Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.) fromLacus Curtius. The first porridge recipe (85) is Phoenician and involves fancier ingredients (honey, eggs, and cheese) than the simple Roman (86) recipe involving grain, water, ...
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, elegant architecture, and gastronomic delights. And thanks to our expert Trip Experience Leade...
In the bustling agoras of Greek cities, street vendors sold quick meals to busy citizens, particularly those who lacked their own kitchens. Though thefixed food stalls known as “thermopolia”(literally “a place where something hot is sold”), were a later Roman development, Greek marketplaces...
Cultivating Villa Economies: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Evidence for Iron Age to Roman Agricultural Practices on the Chalk Downlands of Southern Britain Agricultural practices are key for understanding socio-economic change, community organization, and relationships with landscape and the environment. Under...
Each of these presentations contained a video showing how meals could be made according to ancient recipes. Nowadays, however, old-time cuisine is promoted, not only by food lovers who like to spend their free time in cooking, but also by scholars, such as Sally Grainger, Mark Grant, ...
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians w…
The scattered archaeobotanical remains of rice in West Asia and Europe support the view that rice was an exotic import in the Roman Empire and that in addition to medicine, it was an elite commodity for special meals (Zaouali 2009; Marton 2014; van der Veen and Morales 2015). ...
where Mainz is today (Zach2002). The scattered archaeobotanical remains of rice in West Asia and Europe support the view that rice was an exotic import in the Roman Empire and that in addition to medicine, it was an elite commodity for special meals (Zaouali2009; Marton2014; van der Veen...
Among the unusual recipes prepared by Conte is salsum sine salso, invented by the famed Roman gourmand Marcus Gavius Apicius. It was an “eating joke” made to amaze and fool guests. The fish would be presented with head and tail, but the inside was stuffed with cow liver. Clever sleigh...