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Wine was sometimes adjusted and "improved" by its makers: instructions survive for making white wine from red and vice versa, as well as for rescuing wine that is turning to vinegar. [42] Those instructions as well as detailed descriptions of Roman viticulture date back to 160 BC in the oldest surviving text written in Latin prose.
The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár 'benumbed' and Middle English mous 'mouse'.. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir 'to sleep', with the second element mistaken for mouse, but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
The Roman belief that wine was a daily necessity made the drink "democratic" and ubiquitous; in various qualities, it was available to slaves, peasants and aristocrats, men and women alike. To ensure the steady supply of wine to Roman soldiers and colonists, viticulture and wine production spread to every part of the empire.
A glirarium is a terracotta container used for keeping edible dormice. These animals were considered a delicacy in the Etruscan period and later in the Roman Empire ...
Mosaic depicting the vintage (from Cherchell, present-day Algeria, Roman Africa. Although food shortages were a constant concern, Italian viticulture produced an abundance of cheap wine that was shipped to Rome. [71] Most provinces were capable of producing wine, but regional varietals were desirable, and wine was a central item of trade.
A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form. ... Food & Wine. Food-lovers are flocking to Istanbul ...
The little dormouse, sleeping in the winter nest. One of the most notable characteristics of those dormice that live in temperate zones is hibernation. They can hibernate six months out of the year, or even longer if the weather does not become warm enough, sometimes waking for brief periods to eat food they had previously stored nearby.
Kim Kardashian turned heads in a sultry backless look for her latest red carpet moment.. The reality star, 44, stepped out to the Fourth Annual Fifteen Percent Pledge Gala in Los Angeles on ...