{"id":155882,"date":"2025-05-15T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=155882"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:29:26","slug":"praegustator-slave-testing-food","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/praegustator-slave-testing-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Praegustator &#8211; slave testing food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, there was a <em>praegustator &#8211; <\/em>usually a slave- whose job was to taste <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/\">food<\/a> intended for important people (<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/social-layers-of-ancient-rome\/patricians\/\">patricians<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/roman-emperors\/\">emperors<\/a>) to make sure it wasn\u2019t poisoned. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/columella-roman-author-on-agriculture\/\">Columella<\/a> (the author of the first-century Roman agricultural treatise <em>De re rustica<\/em>) reported that some households and homes of wealthy patricians employed dairy tasters who assessed the quality and freshness of dairy products before they were served or sold. This was not just about safety (e.g. sour milk), but also about quality and aroma &#8211; especially in the case of maturing cheeses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53890,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-155882","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/155882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/155882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=155882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}