Roman Foods By Myles Caldwell
Daily Meals Jentaculum- bread and fruit dawn small lunch- meat, salad, dairy products 11:00 am Cena- salad, meat,veggies, tarts, fruit, nuts afternnoo n 2:00pm to night
Cena Main meal 2:00 pm-night followed by comissatio (drinks)
Cena consisted of... puls- emmer, water, salt, and fat 2-3 courses gustatio primae mensae secundae mensae
Gustatio (starter course) drink-mulsum light dishes salad and veggies (mushrooms, and the leaves of shrubs and weeds)
Main Course (primae mensae) decorative first dish main dish of meat pork-uterus, breasts, ears beef not popular geese- force fed liver trojan pig- stuffed with sausages and fruit hares- expensive delicacy rabbit fetuses (laurices) fish expensive- goatfish popular, die slowly on dinner table
Condiments spices- pepper, silphium extinct garum- sauce for everything, made with decomposed fish protein smelled bad
Secundae Mensae fruits-grapes variety of nuts and other fruits bread and tarts cold clams and oysters (starters)
Alcoholic Drinks wine had high alcohol content flavored passum-raisin wine mulsum-honey wine conditum-honey spice wine beer-vulgar posca-sour watered herb wine
Peasants vs. Wealthy Wealthy- imported exotic food, expensive flavored wine Peasants- local wild food, posca
Entertainment at the table conversation musician acrobats poets dancers guests wouldn’t dance Poet Horace
Traditions at the table offering of meat, cake, wine to Lares(spirit of house) after main course mostly ate standing/seated, lay down to eat on special occasions dinner on triclinium food was eaten with fingers and cochlear and ligula
How food was made... baked in wood burning stoves mills run by donkeys or men
Where was Roman food bought? Forums- markets meat veggies oil
Preserved from Rome recipes preserved food not preserved
Roman diet vs. Italian/American diet Romans mostly drank wine Romans ate food with fingers and cochlea/ligula Americans/Italians eat food with forks, spoons, knives, and occasionally hands Americans/Italians have large selection of beverages Romans had longer dinners Americans/Italians have shorter dinners
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