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The ancient Romans ate walnuts, almonds, pistachios, chestnuts, hazelnuts (filberts), pine nuts, and sesame seeds, which they sometimes pulverized to thicken spiced, sweet wine sauces for roast meat and fowl to serve on the side or over the meat as a glaze. Nuts were also used in savoury pesto-like sauces for cold cuts.
When Romans made their regular visits to burial sites to care for the dead, they poured a libation, facilitated at some tombs with a feeding tube into the grave. Romans drank their wine mixed with water, or in "mixed drinks" with flavorings. Mulsum was a mulled sweet wine, and apsinthium was a wormwood-flavored forerunner of absinthe. [37]
Thermopolium in Herculaneum. In the ancient Greco-Roman world, a thermopolium (pl.: thermopolia), from Greek θερμοπώλειον (thermopōlion), i.e. cook-shop, [1] literally "a place where something hot is sold", was a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food.
It was a staple dish in the cuisine of Ancient Rome. [1] The dish was considered the aboriginal food of the Ancient Romans, and played a role in archaic religious rituals. [2] The basic grain pottage could be elaborated with vegetables, meat, cheese, or herbs to produce dishes similar to polenta or risotto. [3]
Galen: on food and diet. (M. Grant, Trans.). London and New York: Routledge. Garnsey, P. (1988). Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world : Responses to risk and crisis. Cambridge Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press. Garnsey, P. (1999). Food and society in classical antiquity (Key themes in ancient history; Key themes in ancient ...
Banqueting scene from the House of the Chaste Lovers, Pompeii, IX.12.6. In Ancient Roman culture, cena [1] or coena [2] was the main meal of the day.The grammarian, Sextus Pompeius Festus, preserved in his De verborum significatione that in earlier times, cena was held midday but later began to be held in evenings, with prandium replacing the noon meal. [3]
The Roman empire conquered modern-day France, then known as Gaul, in 53 B.C., according to Britannica. The region remained under primarily Roman rule until the early sixth century.
This category is for ancient Roman cuisine. For the cuisine of Rome after antiquity, see the category Category:Cuisine of Lazio and the article Cuisine of Rome . Subcategories