Curiosities of ancient Rome (Recipes)
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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
Recipe for Roman cream
Cream recipe by Marcus Gavius Apicius, a gastronome from the times of Octavian Augustus and Tiberius. In a chafing-dish put honey, pure wine, raisin wine, pine nuts, nuts, cooked spelt, add crushed and toasted hazelnuts and serve. – Apicius, De ... Read more
Bucellatum – Roman biscuit
The late-Roman Codex Theodosianus, which is a collection of Roman laws, mentions that a Roman soldier should be equipped with a buccellatum ac panem, vinum quoque atque acetum, sed et laridum, carnem verbecinam, or “hardtack and bread, wine too and ... Read more
Recipe for real Roman bread
In 1930 in Herculaneum there was excavated from the ground bread (pane), dated to 79 CE. In 2013, the British Museum asked chef Giorgio Locatelli to recreate a recipe for a Roman loaf of bread. To prepare Roman bread you ... Read more
Garum – delicacy of Romans
What is for us today ketchup or mustard, for the Romans was garum. Garum was an addition necessary in exquisite Roman cuisine. It appears in most of the recipes preserved in the work “De re coquinaria” of Apicius. It was ... Read more
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