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Worcestershire sauce is fermented fish sauce; so is the fish sauce used in Asian cooking. Neither tastes like fish in a reecipe.
One of the recipes I want to try is eggs scrambled with cucumber. It probably will be different because the cucumber has changed over time. They used to have a more bitter flavor.
Sammy Hagar’s illegitimate son? 🎶
The weird thing about chariots was, there was no chair in them, ya had to stand up.
The only way I enjoy cukes is as pickles.
Is that thatzoh...
Now zucchini and eggs are a tasty combo.
Yup. The Roman bread dole went on for centuries. Also, pork was popular but (as now) was more expensive at certain times of the year. But when the Games were on, it wasn’t a good idea to eat from restaurants near the arenas, because human flesh is, uh, basically indistinguishable from pork, and, uh, well...
I’ll eat yellow summer squash, never much cared for zukes.
BTW thanks for the link to the book. I ordered it.
Is there evidence that they really did that???
A day at the colosseum drinking wine, eating bread and cheese, enjoying the spectacle.
But I just hope it’s not too bloody a one.
😁
Just the description starts to activate a response from my stomach. I’ll leave the garum but take the cannoli.
A surviving menu in one of those Roman take-out joints including something called “spaghetti and Pete’s balls”.
IOW, nope, just ancient scuttlebutt. Could be like the current allegation that Chinese restaurants serve dog and cat meat.
LOL.
(I had to ask because you are usually pretty precise about ancient history...)
My mother used to slice ‘em thin (one of those handheld graters has a wide slicer on one side), and then chop up every leftover veg in the fridge, chop up some tomato and onion, then fry up some bacon, cut it all up into bits, and toss in the veggies, and do sort of a stir-fry. But it’s gotta be yellow squash, zukes just ruin it for me.
It is true about the indistinguishable nature of pork and human flesh, which may be a reason pork is forbidden in Judaism and Islam.
I thought it had more to do with food borne disease and lack of refrigeration.
(Though I’ve seen the tales about ‘long pig’ from other parts of the world.)
Tasting History is a You Tube channel that discusses what people ate throughout history, including Egypt, Rome and the Middle Ages. He also cooks dishes that were discussed using recipes available from the time.
https://youtube.com/c/tastinghistory
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