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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.
The dormice were served by either roasting them and dipping them in honey or stuffing them with a mixture of pork, pine nuts, and other flavorings. [44] [42] It was, however, very important to upper-class Romans that the dormice be separated from other products of the hunt, like the large game, for presentation purposes. [45]
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]
An exploration of ancient sewers beneath the Colosseum, the world’s most recognizable stadium, revealed the kinds of food spectators snacked on in the stands and the animals that met their fate ...
Cheese-making was known in Europe at the earliest level of Hellenic myth. [ a ] According to Pliny the Elder , cheese became a sophisticated enterprise at the start of the ancient Rome era. [ 20 ] During the ancient Rome era, valued foreign cheeses were transported to Rome to satisfy the tastes of the social elite.
The Romans used a special kind of enclosure, a glirarium, to raise and fatten dormice for the table. [7] It is still considered a delicacy in Slovenia and in several places in Croatia, namely Lika, and the islands of Hvar and Brač. [8] [9] Dormouse fat was believed by the Elizabethans to induce sleep since the animal put on fat before ...
Brânză – an ancient Romanian cheese dating to "before the time of the Romans" [90] Caciocavallo; Cantal – one of the oldest French cheeses, it is named after the Cantal mountain range [91] Emmental [92] Feta – existed during the times of Homer in ancient Greece [93] Touloumotiri is an ancient cheese that is considered as the "forerunner ...
For example, “Romans did bring all sorts of really exotic animals into the amphitheater, not just for the pleasure of watching them be killed, but also because it symbolized allegorically the ...