Curiosities of ancient Rome (Food)
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Pork in Imperium Romanum
Pork is a very tasty meat – probably everyone who eats it will agree with this. Many of us probably cannot imagine that at least once a week there would be no pork chop or bacon for breakfast at least ... Read more
Romans ate while reclining
Roman patricians ate in reclining positions, settling on sofas. The sofas encircled the main table on three sides, with food and drink delivered by slaves to individual guests. The name of the Roman dining room – triclinium – comes from ... Read more
Pangiallo – yellow bread
In the Latium region to this day, one of the typical Christmas cakes is the so-called yellow bread – pangiallo. Its roots go back to the era of the Roman Empire. Back then, pieces of that golden dough, dipped in ... Read more
Snails fattened with milk – Roman delicacy
One of the favourite delicacies of the ancient Romans was snails fattened with milk. Varro or Pliny the Elder mention that rich Romans enjoyed snails from their own farms. It seems that the first person to start a snail farm ... Read more
Romans knew rice
Rice was known in ancient times. Ancient Rome imported rice (Oryza sativa) from India, as a luxury product added to dishes or used as a medicine. Mentions of it can be found in texts by authors such as Pliny the ... Read more
Roman fresco showing daily expenses
We learn a lot about the expenses of ordinary citizens of course from Pompeii. It was there in one of the houses that the Roman “graffiti” survived; the resident calculates his expenses on the wall for the next five days ... Read more
Mullet – delicacy of ancient Romans
As reported by Pliny the Elder1, who lived in the middle of the 1st century CE, one of the most eaten fish among the ancient Romans was the red mullet. As he himself points out, the fish has a “double ... Read more
Roman lunch
The basic ingredient of Roman’s dinner was bread made of various types of flour: black bread (panis rusticus, plebeius), white bread (panis secundaris) and the softest bread luxurious (panis candidus, uniform). There was no shortage of vegetables, lettuce, cabbage, leeks, ... Read more
Onions – delicacy of Romans
Onion was extremely popular in ancient Roman times, and therefore it is probably still used in many dishes in Europe. With the conquest of Europe, the Romans took the vegetable with them to various regions, including Germany or Britain. In ... Read more
Asparagus – expensive specialty among Greeks and Romans
Asparagus was a very expensive speciality in ancient Greek and Roman times that was especially frozen in the Alps for festivals and festivals. Both the Greeks and Romans appreciated their unique and delicate taste, diuretic and medical properties. Asparagus was ... Read more
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