"It's a cookbook!"
Posted on 03/08/2020 9:53:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
What you may consider to be a quintessentially American invention is actually mentioned in an ancient Roman cookbook called Apicius.
The text was written by an unknown author sometime between the late 4th and 5th century AD and contains lots of recipes.
One of those recipes describes a dish called 'Isicia Omentata'.
It details how a cook should use minced meat, pepper, pine nuts and a rich fish-based sauce and form them all into a patty shape.
This Roman delicacy looks very similar to modern day burgers once cooked.
The Romans are also credited for being big users of 'fast food joints' and even brought them over to Britain.
These places were known as thermopolia and served quick food like chicken legs and lamb chops to people in large towns.
Food Historian Dr Annie Gray previously explained on an English Heritage blog: "We all know that the Romans left a huge mark on Britain, fundamentally altering the British diet forever."
She added: "Street food became available en masse, and many of our favourite foods were introduced, including Isicia Omentata, what can be seen as the Roman forefather to today's burger."
Gray also said that the Roman burgers would have been "more upmarket" and "complex" than the ones we know today.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Unless they put it between two pieces of bread they didn’t invent the burger.
No mayo, no onion, no ketchup, no pickle, no lettuce.
It’s not a burger.
It’s meatloaf.
Everyone does!
I’m stealin’ it, regardless. :^)
Beef patty, beef patty, there on the bun...
"It's a cookbook!"
The writer of the headline had a brain fart. I'm not used to these newfangled unlimited length titles, else I would have included [sic] in there. Or maybe not, because I actually didn't notice the error until LRM pointed it out. :^)
LOL
The Big Bang Theory - Did Chinese invent the sandwich?
(the Tang dynasty? Imagine, a whole dynasty based on drinking instant mix beverages then gettin' laid!)
Check, hold the garum. How about some liquamen?
We’re talking Roma here. It’s a flattened meat-a-ball.
In that case Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce should be a close analog.
3500 year old ‘Roman’ recipe? I wonder, just when did the Roman moniker start, in what epoch the Roman Empire began to rise? LOL
Patump pa
Roughly the same. I will still pass.
Do you think the Romans conquered and held most of the then-known world because of, or in spite of, their diet?
After a century or so of trial and error, intermittent improvements by talented commanders, and ultimately a massively OCD organization initiated and/or reformed by Augustus, the Roman army *was* the Roman Empire. They kept a standing army that (after Augustus) rarely exceeded 280,000 (half of whom were auxiliaries) and yet Roman rule stretched the length of North Africa, and from lowland Scotland to the Persian Gulf during the reign of Trajan, and maintaining (and expanding) that with relatively few troops probably is some kind of record.
HA HA HA!
And can I have columella salad on the side? I have to watch my girlish figure.
[[Alright, but other than that what have the Romans ever done for us?]]
Gave us candles?
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