Roman Food.

The Romans did not eat huge meals,their main meal was pottage which was a type of thick stew made from wheat, millet or corn. Sometimes they would add some cooked meat or a sauce made from wine. However as the empire grew,the Romans came into contact with foods from other countries.

They started using herbs and spices,to flavor their meals. They also began eating much more fish, especially shellfish.

Roman banquet. Starters. Jellyfish and eggs. Sow's udders,stuffed with salted sea urchins. Patina of brains,cooked with milk and eggs. Boiled tree fungi,with peppered fish-fat sauce. Sea urchins,with spices,honey oil and egg sauce.

Main meals. Fallow deer,roasted with onion sauce,rue,dates,raisins,oil and honey. Boiled ostrich,with a sweet sauce. Dormice,stuffed with pork and pine nuts Ham,boiled with figs and baked in pastry with honey. Flamingo,boiled with dates. Roman banquets

Desserts. Fricassee of roses,with pastry. Stoned dates,stuffed with nuts and pine nuts fried in honey. Hot African sweet-wine cakes with honey. Fruit. ROMAN BANQUETS

During a feast or banquet, Romans lay on couches and ate their meal with their fingers, but also used spoons and knives. Slaves brought bowls of water and towels for people to wash their hands throughout the meal,slaves also brought and served the meal. EATING HABITS.

● Wealthy people would have slaves to cook their food on charcoal stoves, however poor people would have had to cook their food on the streets or in their local baker's oven.

Another Menu. Main Dishes. Shellfish Fish Wild boar Roast pheasant Partridge Peacocks And Ostriches. Dormice stuffed with peacock brains was served as a treat.

Snails and milk. Snails were kept in jars with holes, and a milk and salt mixture which the snails ate. When it fattened them up until they were too big to fit into their shells they were fried in oil and served with a fish sauce mixed with wine.

Fast Food. Ordinary Romans could buy fast food in the streets, from food stalls. At these stalls they could buy, tomaculi, which were small sausages or pieces of cooked meat covered in garum, which was a sauce made from fish intestines.

Shopping List One donkey spent on cheese Eight on bread Three on oil And Three on wine

Roman Diets. A lot of wealthy Romans were overweight. The doctor,Galen, prescribed a diet of raw vegetables with vinegar, he also told his obese patients, to eat chicken instead of fattier meats. Many rich Romans held extravagant banquets and feasts to show of their wealth.

The poorest Romans had to que every morning at the local granary to get their ration of free bread or wheat meal from the government. They would boil the wheat meal in water to make a rough, grey porridge and add mushrooms, herbs, olives and small pieces of meat or fish to give it flavour.

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