Roman Foods By Myles Caldwell Daily Meals

Roman Foods By Myles Caldwell

Daily Meals Jentaculum- bread and fruit • dawn small lunch- meat, salad, 11: 00 am dairy products afternnoo Cena- salad, n meat, veggies, tarts, fruit, 2: 00 pm to nuts night

Cena • Main meal • 2: 00 pm-night • followed by comissatio (drinks)

Cena consisted of. . . • puls- emmer, water, salt, and fat • 2 -3 courses • gustatio • primae mensae • secundae mensae

Gustatio (starter course) • drink-mulsum • light dishes • salad and veggies (mushrooms, and the leaves of shrubs and weeds)

• • • Main Course (primae mensae) decorative first dish main dish of meat pork-uterus, breasts, ears beef not popular geese- force fed liver trojan pig- stuffed with sausages and fruit hares- expensive delicacy rabbit fetuses (laurices) fish expensive- goatfish popular, die slowly on dinner table

Condiments • spices- pepper, silphium extinct • garum- sauce for everything, • made with decomposed fish protein • smelled bad

Secundae Mensae • fruits-grapes • variety of nuts and other fruits • bread and tarts • cold clams and oysters (starters)

Alcoholic Drinks • • wine had high alcohol content flavored passum-raisin wine mulsum-honey wine conditum-honey spice wine beer-vulgar posca-sour watered herb wine

Peasants vs. Wealthy • Wealthy- imported exotic food, expensive flavored wine • Peasants- local wild food, posca

Entertainment at the table • conversation • musician • acrobats • poets • dancers • guests wouldn’t dance Poet Horace

Traditions at the table • • offering of meat, cake, wine to Lares(spirit of house) after main course mostly ate standing/seated, lay down to eat on special occasions dinner on triclinium food was eaten with fingers and cochlear and ligula

How food was made. . . • baked in wood burning stoves • mills run by donkeys or men

Where was Roman food bought? • Forums- markets • meat • veggies • oil

Preserved from Rome • recipes preserved • food not preserved

• • • Roman diet vs. Italian/American diet Romans mostly drank wine Romans ate food with fingers and cochlea/ligula Americans/Italians eat food with forks, spoons, knives, and occasionally hands Americans/Italians have large selection of beverages Romans had longer dinners Americans/Italians have shorter dinners

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