Food and Meals in Ancient Rome - Cultural Presentation
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2016
- A detailed cultural presentation of the three diffrent meals the Romans had daily.
About Rome
The imperial successor to the republic lasted approximately 1400 years. The first two centuries of the empire's existence were a period of unprecedented political stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana, or "Roman Peace". Following Octavian's victory, the size of the empire was dramatically increased. After the assassination of Caligula in 41, the senate briefly considered restoring the republic, but the Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius emperor instead. Under Claudius, the empire invaded Britannia, its first major expansion since Augustus. After Claudius' successor, Nero, committed suicide in 68, the empire suffered a period of brief civil wars, as well as a concurrent major rebellion in Judea, during which four different legionary generals were proclaimed emperor. Vespasian emerged triumphant in 69, establishing the Flavian dynasty, before being succeeded by his son Titus, who opened the Colosseum shortly after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. His short reign was followed by the long reign of his brother Domitian, who was eventually assassinated. The senate then appointed the first of the Five Good Emperors. The empire reached its greatest extent under Trajan, the second in this line.
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They should open restaurants with only meals from Ancient Rome and decorate the Restaurant Roman :)
+Nr One Chilean
Great idea! I've tried making a few recipes based on Greek and Roman food, and I thought they were great. It's also a lesson in history and botany, as you need to learn to avoid all the foods which existed in Europe only since the discovery of the Americas (tomatoes, potatoes, corn, and a huge amount more), which were introduced from Asia in the Middle Ages (eg. lemons, oranges), or which were available but considered barbarous (eg. butter and milk). Some foods would have been available to Romans but not in Classical Athens too (eg. peaches and apricots, introduced by Alexander the Great).
Dionysus Bromius Thank you for sharing bro, its very interesting!
+Nr One Chilean
And everyone would dine on those lounging beds :)
(Assuming bureaucratic "fire-codes" don't screw everything up.)
@Nr One Chilean: And these restaurants will undergo out of business in a few weeks due to disgusting garum sauce made of rotten fish, that romans put everywhere in their food!
I really like the idea of garum, I'd like to try it
Y'know, Hobbits also had second breakfast.....
uekiguy legend says there was a rumored 3rd breakfast
Indeed!
I’m from Italy. Bread with olive oil, salt and a few drops of vinegar is a great snack (and if you rub garlic on the bread and toast it, then add some tomato you get bruschetta). Bread and figs is another excellent snack. And much healthier than any modern snack based on chocolate or sugar
Awesome video! In cyprus we still eat bread figs and a hard cheese (halloumi) for breakfast till this day (and also bread with olive oil and vinegar)
Also in orthodox christianity instead of eating a piece of unbaked bread (as catholics do) we eat a piece of bread dipped in red sweet wine.
How do u eat it? Do u tear of a piece of bread andeat it WITH cheese?
Greek foods such as the cheeses and various varieties of flatbread along with fruit like figs or dates are wonderful, both healthy and taste great, too. Pretty fond of the spinach dishes like spanakopita or spanakorizo with the caramelized onions and crushed garlic added along with pine nuts and melted quark cheese and feta cheese. Great with everything you mentioned and some baked or grilled fish or a lamb roast. Not to say Italian's not great, too (personally more fond of the northern stuff from Florence and Venice similar to Greek than the usual Neapolitan and Sicilian that makes up almost all you see and is all anyone thinks of in the US, though Sicilian deep-dish pizza is pretty good). :)
George Charalambous we've got halloumi from Cyprus here in Australia, I have for breakfast everyday
@InfiniteMushroom isn't modern day Thai Fish Sauce similar to Ancient Roman garum? Both made by layering anchovies and salt in a barrel, leaving them to ferment and the liquid that runs off of it is the fish sauce/ garum
50 lashes for the beardless barbarian
Pieter hahahaha
i laughed really hard
So? The Governator was beardless when he did the old Conan the Barbarian films.
Girly boy.
Having that much falsies is overkill, but I'll get the glue then.
my own deep studies of this period have uncovered that Roman's actually frequently enjoyed deep dish pizza, baked ziti, spaghetti with spicy meatballs, chicken alfredo, and cheesy garlic bread.
How could you forget Caesar salad? It was the most popular dish during the Imperial era!
Audfile: I believe the children consumed Polly-O string cheese in abundance during this time.
And Olivum Gardenum
yes nobles ate caesar salad but the commoners could only afford to eat "little" caesars
Alexander the Great I think you didn't understand the joke.
Ok, this is awesome (to me): i'm chilean, but my grandpa was spanish. I learnt from my mom, who learnt from my grandpa the bread with oil, vinegar and salt thing. I always thought that way of eating bread had originated in the spanish civil war, because they had nothing else to put in bread. At least that's one of the things my grandpa's dad told him about the war. Now i see that the tradition is obviously far, far more ancient... Since Spain used to be part of the roman empire. Cool, thanks a lot for that revelation!
Wena ctm :) nice story btw. My grandmother came from the Vasconia when she was six years old and the family brought with her countless traditions we still cherrish in my family.
My parents are italians from bagnara, i'm from Argentina bs as. we eat in the breakfast bread with oil and salt....it's a tradition on the Mediterranean region I see...we also eat cold pizza in the breakfast too 😀
In Italy we eat bread, oil and salt
Bloody hell, the Romans ate far better than I do.
Me too
Why would they not have? lol weird that would surprise you, we eat trash these days
Apart from 90% of the inhabitants of Rome.
Only the Rich ones.
@@yzayalirian7463 Contrary do what most believe, that the peasantry and workers were ill feed, they actually ate rather well. Only way you would have energy to work the fields, mines or in a construction yard for 10-12 hours a day was by eating a very energy rich meal. No skimmed milk or lean meats. It was all whole fat cream, milk, cheese and cured and smoked lard. Also not to mention a major cause of obesity right now in our modern societies, the evil of white bread.
i just went and tried the bread, oil, vinegar, and salt. It's very good. Thanks.
+Storm Crow I do this all the time at work. Often the oil will have a bit of garlic and cheese added to it, and its magnificent. Always funny though when people walk by my desk and see be with a big loaf of bread, some olive oil, and vinegar though. They give weird looks, till they try some.
Ooooo, cheese and garlic sounds awesome.
Charles Ruberl uhhh...... what type of oil again? (Only have cooking oil)
I eat that all the time. though I also like to have it baked in the oven for a bit to a certain crispness. I always ate that but never knew it originates to the Romans.
@@justnoob8141 Isnt it obvious? Olive, of course! Every true roman uses that.
Laying down and eating? Sounds great let’s bring back this trend
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Reflux......
I often practise that, and by eating with my hands; but I have no hairy slaves for wiping them with their hair. Maybe if I ask to my girlfriend...
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I cry for your majestic beard noble one.
But praise thanks for the majestic hair that we still have in our unworthy presence
+Isvoor Metatron's hair is angelically fabulous.
Just once, I think he should do one of these videos with his hair up in a man bun.
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Andrea Contreras Hernández Totally agree!
Actually, it seems the Romans had a good diet - and I am a total sucker for REAL Italian food and culture; I truly wish to visit someday.
Basically they had the "mediterranean diet" something Italy has still in our days, same for Greece and Spain of course :)
getting your hands on the REAL stuff i sometimes hard even for italians, let' take oil and vinegar, you could use the ones you buy at the grocery store, but they pale in comparison to the ones made by someone who's got a farm and makes them artisanally.
Isaac Schlomo Shekelburg-Cohen It's not home made everything has GMO in it now
I'm not sure if I'd call Roman food real Italian. Italians are a Germanic people that learned Latin with a bit of Roman blood mixed in around central Italy. Proper Romans (by blood) on Sardinia and Corsica though.
No.... Roman food is not Italian food... there was no pasta, no tomatoes, no potatoes.... not like Italian food at all, if anything Roman food is closer to middle eastern.
Man I love your videos, keep up the good work.
I'm glad you do! Thank you very much :)
same here, also as a romanian from Transilvania, this video certainly explained a lot, i didn't'know that bread, oil, vinegar and salt were a thing in those times(minus the vinegar for us) and also, i didn't even knew from where we got the word "pranz" from...
+Angelo Ace this is ancient Roman not Romanian
Frederick the ancient Romans are part of our ancestry and the reason we have a latin language
As I learn more about Rome, I more often seek information about the lives of real people, rather than battles, weapons, and wars. More of this! :-)
I'm Tunisian-Syrian and I eat bread with oil and cheese in the breakfast
Lina Al Hassin
Really? I didn't know that was still common !
Not very common but some people still eat it.... actually it's strong meals...so I don't eat it a lot..... but Also Jews eat that till now
I'm Canadian and I eat nothing for breakfast. Not because i'm poor, but because I wake up without an appetite... don't know why though.
Same in Morocco, bread and oil is the most common breakfast here
You literally can't, I had the same issue, you just need to get used to it, when I started going to the gym I had to eat a lot 'cause I was so skinny, so I forced myself to wake up early and have a big breakfast, with time I started waking up hungry.
laying down seems very uncomfortable
I'd say.
Great for reflux.
eating dinner on my daybed atm. i now usually eat there or lounging on the couch. very rarely use the dining room table anymore. very comfortable once you get used to it. I think the biggest difference is, when you eat at the table, you sit down and just nom thru the plate. lounging, much more likely to eat slowly, whilst reading, watching tv or talking. eat a bit, put it aside, come back to it after a few minutes. just seems natural. you can understand how people would be boggled that the meal could take so long, but its hardly like they were eating caterpillar fashion like we tend to nowdays. perfect example, paused to write this, will eat a few more mouthfuls when im done.
Yeah
I just wanted to thank you for the excellent work and wanted to drop a quick note about how this video was useful. My 8 year old is studying Latin and when we got to a chapter discussing the typical Roman diet and daily meals, this video was a perfect accompaniment. Always helpful to have engaging video content when teaching the little guys. Keep up the good work!
Wow! Metatron, something awesome happened. MY HISTORY TEACHER SHOWED THIS VIDEO IN CLASS!!! Damn i was very exited! :D
+Hmello ahaha that is fantastic! Please tell him/her I'm honoured :D
+Metatron Will do! :D
Excellent explanation. Thanks for the visuals & great descriptions!
In Spanish when we invite people over to eat, we call it "convivio" LOL the word survived
it's same in portuguese
I think it's a nice word, based on its roots of "shared living" or "experiencing life together", which certainly are often things one does whilst feasting
zhbvenkhoReload Latin is not a dead language, it just evolved and mutated
zhbvenkhoReload No we don’t, not in my country anyway
As my Latin teacher says, "It's not dead, it's immortal!"
You forgot to mention the most famous garum.
ah; spiced tapeworm soup.
thekaxmax most bacteria and tapeworms and such can’t survive in vinegar
Is garum like fish sauce?
Metatron, I think you have forgotten one major aspect of Roman Cruisine: Garum.
OMG YES! They put that on EVERYTHING!
E Kramer It was like ketchup
Yeah, what about that salty "fermented" fish paste the ancient Romans liked so much (Garum), and things like stuffed door mice, lol? Was it true that it was considered polite or perfectly normal to excuse yourself at large banquets to go and puke? I guess this wasn't a video about their dinner etiquette though.
Ed What's his name Garum was fish guts that had been left to ferment in a pot with herbs and spices. The Romans ate it with pretty much everything
And Roman nobility would typically vomit at dinner parties when they were full just so they could eat more food. But they wouldn't excuse themselves, instead they would do it at the dinner table or close by.
To be honest, a video called "Food and Meals in Ancient Rome" should have mentioned this.
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I am american italian and we do some of these exact things, My mom used to put herbs in the olive oil and put it in the sun, she would put a lil Romano cheese or vinegar on it some times just olive oil. My dad and his grandfather would put sweetened wine over stale bread, and some times a bit of fruit.
It’s interesting how eating in the west feels almost formal and stiff now compared to how reclined and relaxed meals seemed to be enjoyed then
He's Italian with a British accent. Love it!!!!!!!👍
:D
So part Ceaser and part Boudica.
Armored mecha
More like part Caesar and part Harold Godwinson
Well technically he is speaking English correctly, with a British accent. Probably how he learned it
@@ostracizedttv9926 I learned through UA-cam, so it's mixed and quite unique.
+Metatron You should do a historical evaluation of "Ryse: Son of Rome" the game
Yaaaas.
+deano bandit Yes, I got the game and that will come too
+Metatron OMG I can't believe it.... You shaved your beard off.... What happened? Were all roman legionaries shaved? I thought I saw some bearded soldiers on some roman pillars...
BTW excellent video, I learned that the main meal for roman soldiers in the field was some kind of wheat mash or wheat broth that was "spiced up with some bacon or olives, just like a salty version of porridge...
+99smite the bearded soldier is probably an auxilary
Stan De Vette
could be
Oeh, loved this. More food vids please! Reviewing self made classic Roman food stuffs or something like that. This made me hungry!
ahah ok ^^
Great video, keep pumping them out!
I really want some aged cheese now, with grapes and fried chicken.
Tomato's with oregano and salt sprinkled on them are very good. I used to eat that between making salads at my old job
The Romans would not have had tomatoes, like chocolate, corn cobs turkeys, Chilli peppers and putting pineapple on a pizza these were unknown in Europe until the discovery of the Americas.
He talks more about meals than food and recipes. He does not mention the favourite spices (black pepper, cumin, ginger, more black pepper), favourite herbs (lovage, spearmint, oregano, rue, pennyroyal [like peppermint but cool]), or the very widespread use of honey, including in many savoury dishes, or the ubiquitous salty fish sauce made from anchovies, similar to modern Thai fish sauce, or the lost Libyan spice sulphium, related to asafoetida used in Indian cooking.
And food perfumes, added for scent rather than flavour.
Also the very wide variety of seafood and meat eaten, including song birds.
And that cheeses were often Ewes milk, although they also had cows and goats milk cheeses.
Or that the Romans usually ate wheat bread, while the Greeks usually ate barley bread, and that bread was the staple food at every meal. Modern alternatives like potatoes or maize (as in modern Italian polenta) would be unknown until the discovery of the Americas, while rice or noodles (as in modern Italian pasta) already common in China were only just becoming known in the Mediterranean world.
Or cooking methods or professional slave cooks. If attending dinner (coena) at the home of a prosperous Roman family, it would be bad manners to complement the hostess on being a good cook. That would imply that her family were too poor to afford slaves to labour in the hot kitchen.
Also that knives were provided for those dining in cheap tabernas, but not at a prosperous person's dinner party, as there would be slaves to cut up the food, for the diners to eat with their fingers. Or the custom of singing a hymn to Jupiter during a dinner party...I could go on...
@@legalvampire8136 holy shit that was fantastic, thank you for that little nugget of knowledge
@@HoundXXII Thank you, Charming Cthulu
Not the beard!!!! ;) But seriously, great presentation. Oh, and bread with oil / vinegar and salt is a common occurrence in our house as well, 'ma, con cena, non colazione.'
+Knyght Errant ahahah nice :D si anche noi lo mangiamo il pomeriggio o a cena :3
ps: The beard is back lol
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You're awesome. Found your channel yesterday. I've been studying Latin for a time and have been interested in the Romans since I first read the gospels. I've yet to meet someone who shares these same interests. Thank you for these videos
me and my wife come from the Lazio region, thought it was funny, her grandfather's normal breakfast was bread with wine. We still eat bread and figs..FYI we also still make our own olive oil from the family trees....nothing in the store is even close.
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I see that you are also a man of culture! Lucius Vorenus would nod approvingly. 👍🏻
Olives in vinegar are great, by the way. For anyone interested. :)
how much olive oil and vinegar and salt ?
You ever try those olives with their cores ripped out, have a cheese blocked stuffed in them, and then they are canned in a glass moonshine jar with vinegar and oil? like that essentially.
+Godking Superduper mason jar
BITTER STEEL Moonshine jar
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+Metatron
You know anything about using a collapsible baton?
If so could you do a video on them or other similar blunt weapon(s)?
+Metatron 5:27 Lard spread on bread was pretty popular in Serbia until a few decades ago. One fast food place made the news a couple of years ago when they introduced that in in food they offer.
Remember that Jesus is a name so it starts with a big J.
Thanks for including the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill picture. I love these guys!
Me too!
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Your channel is so informative! 😍
Interesting. You have a different feel in your videos than I have seen. Ever. Thank you.
Friends don't let friends cut their hair.
It's true. If woman tells another woman to cut her hair ,it's jealousy. Hair is important to a lot of people.
It would be Intresting to see How the meals of the day change to social and economic Group.
I have two questions:
1. How do you eat the bread with oil, vinegar and salt? Just pour, sprinkle it on to the bread? (red wine vinegar?)
2. Do you know the grains from which Roman bread was made. I have read they had spelt. How about other varieties of wheat?
thank you for this video! I really needed it for my Ancient Rome research report!
Metatron, first, really good video! I'm a fan of your channel.
Second, you could do a video talking about the food used during military campaign to feed the armies. Could be for the Romans and/or during the middle ages (in general).
+Mateus Nz You can already find some info about that in my video "Life of a Roman soldier" :)
In romanian = ceana = cina , pranzo = pranz , ..love you vids
In French, "Cène" is basically reserved only to refer to Jesus' last supper.
Otherwise, they seem to only say "souper".
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I saw this video a couple of months ago. Very interesting. Always wondered what food was like in Ancient Rome. I'm definitely going to try the bread dunked in sweetened wine for ientaculum.
I always bring my meal to bed with me... I eat once per day plus snack on jerky or fruit, while reclining. My cats and dog watch me eat. I guess I'm still an ancient Tuscan from way back. Love our Mediterranean foods, so good and healthy. Love Greek foods, yogurt with honey, love Turkish foods. Had my dna tested and I'm 99 percent Mediterranean area and 1 percent Middle Eastern. There had to be that stray rooster in the hen house.
I'm assuming the insulae were a bit more austere. How did the plebs have their dinner? Standing like the other meals, or were triclinia pretty universal?
Triclinia were for the upper class, I would immagine plebs just sitting wherever they could, or eating standing if they were busy in town.
Awesome video...one of my faves on youtube
Pretty good channel man, keep it up
Thank you so much Vitor ^^
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Nice video, I heard that no campaign the soldiers would eat hard cheese(parmesan like) and dry meats is this true tho? I would think they got their food from the locals considering the fact that they played offence most of the time.
the hard cheese, and dried meats were probably part of army rations they carried themselves, supplemented by foraged, bought or pillaged local food stuffs when possible. Also I've heard porridge with lard/salted and or dried pork was common soldier food.
Very interesting and well done video. Thank you!
Instructive and fun as usual.
bread olive oil olives balsamic and wine its a common in all Mediterranean diet . im not Italian but we also combine same food you do .
drreik most of the Mediterranean was controlled by Rome at one point, but yes it is very common.
drreik Olive oil is Italian Butter:)
Roman food sounds simple but delicious. But as a ruddy northern Barbarian, in my humble verdict: needs more butter! : )
for some reason i feel barbarians didnt give a shit about butter
also needs more meat.
and beer.
What's wrong with lard? Fat is fat.
@Hello World surprisingly butter has been used extensively especially in Northern Europe for thousands of years
@@jannegrey593 disgusting
Really cool. Good video. Have bread and oil, EVOO, with my dinner all the time.
the effect that you do in the transitions that you look like you come in a superfast elevator in camera like 1:38 ...
dude i just love it :D ... it gets me everytime! . i love your videos !
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Convivium, we call it "Convivio" in spanish. Greetings
Olives, cheese and bread.
Oh, so I eat like a Roman when my mother isn`t home to cook stuff for me. Except I don`t like honey.
that is probably because it's that liquid industrial honey that has no flavour and is essentially just a sweet and sticky mess.
what you want is the really solid honey that you have to cut out of the jar with a knife, that's the good stuff.
Great video. Lots of information especially comparison with your modern day meal.
your videos are awewome dude :)
I’m guessing the Romanian word “prânz” also goes back to this word “prandium”
Daniel Sugar certainly, it seems strange, but romanian is a romance language just like italian spanish and french. Today, its latin liguistic roots have mixed deeply with slavic language groups
Who are you? Where's Metatron?! What have you done to the mighty, noble and majestic one's glorious beard?!
+lcmiracle "And remember: The Metatron, has shaved his beard."
+613 The Evil xD xD xD
My grandparents live in Abruzzi on a farm. Everytime I went to see them when they lived in Rome we had bread olive oil from their farm, vinegar and salt. Such fond memories
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This is really cool! Information like this is sparse and tricky to find because you cannot tell what's real and what's fake. This really helps with my research for my story. Thanks for the video!
I'm glad you liked it pal!
2 years later, you DID cut your hair, pals...
So 50 lashes for long-haired Roman...
Metatron, a true compatriot of Leonardo da Vinci
Great video! Thanks for doing all the researching for me!
+Michael Rosen My pleasure and thanks for watching ^^
Love these vids!
didn't the Romans use to drink vinegar when they weren't drinking wine?
Posca, a mix of water and vinegar, popular among the legionaries. ;)
Is it possible it was Posca that was offered by a legionary to the Jesus character in the Bible?
Gad Yariv i'm a roman, my father likes to drink vinegar
Yes, he was trying to be kind and gave his entire daily ration to him.
*Frnkn shw the "jesus character'?
How the hell did people lay down and eat? I've always been puzzled by this. It must have been so uncomfortable. And they must have gotten heartburn.
I end up doing that a lot of the time because of a bad back, and it's actually pretty comfortable
Special eating sofas
Fascinating. Good job.
That lay down while eating looks fun
Lard.. Here in Ukraine, we fucking love it! Especially fresh lard with little bit of salt.
Ludwig Kvenit also known as "salo".
Yeah, that was an odd bit. Who could have known that legionaries and cossacks preferred similar foods.
Of course the Metatron knows about angelic hair^^
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+ladyanterella Please enlighten me on that concept.
+Metatron can you explain the metatron thing one day?
+James Atherton I will ;)
Wonderful interesting videos thank you
This is one of my favorite videos. Perhaps, you could expand on this in future videos. As strange as it may be for a teetotaler to admit, Mulsum sounds delicious. By the way, when I find myself with lack of funds at month's end, I often find myself eating bread dunked in oil, vinegar, and salt. Weird-- huh? Maybe my ancestors reach out to me at those times. Pax.
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill picture nice👍😆, they were both Italian,..not many people know this.
i Love spaghetti westerns!!
rich5562000 So did my dad,....that's how i know about them,...alway's loved how they beat everybody up in their movies 👍 😆.
ThatDutchguy
Lolololol
My dad hated them, so I would sneak him into double features. He got wise to me.
Bud Spencer was a bad ass.
rich5562000 Bud Spencer was indeed a bad ass 👍😆.
+ThatDutchguy Of course we all know that in Italy and I loved them when I was a teen :D
you didn't really say much about the types of food they ate
Hallo Metatron. Your videos have improved alot! Youre doing so well. I love the historical part of your videos.
Could you maybe talk about the Medieval Russians? I dont hear much about them, Rusiny Lancers, Cossacks etc. maybe. I would love to hear your imput on it.
You think thats a good idea? Or at least possible?
I love all your historical pieces and you're rad. I would only ask to maybe have an update of what you have learned possibly on newer videos. But I love all of this. Metatron the revisionist, now that is a clerics title
You should cut your bald hair when we reach 1,000,000 subs.
Can you imagine what it would have been like had the Romans had COFFEE? Rome would NEVER have fallen!
Metatron Genius this and many thanks. The "frugal lunch" to which you referred was, please believe me, better than the Ploughman's Lunch in early 80's London! I guess a Roman transported to a London pub lunch circa 1981, would have immediately pined for AD 81!
A perfect addition to our homeschool unit. Thanks so much!
Wow, Lard?... I'm surprised the Legionaries didn't die of high Cholesterol! Still, great video, very informative! Keep up the good work!
High blood sugar, from the bread and honey, would cause heart disease. And Romans didn't have tobacco;)
rich5562000 Yeah, that's true.
+Clay Ronso Legionary life is very active one. All chemicals would be vented out by constant workouts.
Clay Ronso Hah, lol! XD
+G3orgianSoldier Yeah, that's a good point, too. I just think that one need to be VERY active to work off the fat gained from LARD. That a Legionary could do so is one thing, but the common man? Maybe not...
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Loved the video. Ty
THIS was an amazing video I have no subscribed. Thank you!
Food history is my thing, Fantastic video.
Please no! Never cut off those gorgeous black locks! Great content! I've subscribed and look forward to more.
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I know this is five years old, but I loved tbat you included Bud Spencer and Terence Hill for a examplatory picture for food, loved their eating scenes. 😄
as for the second breakfast thing, what kind of vinegar? what kind of oil? any particular kind of salt? i wanna try that bread thing out
given that it was rome, my guess is that it was most likely olive oil and grape vinegar.
Great video!
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Convivium reminds me of the Spanish word “convivio”, which means a gathering of family or friends and just having something to eat while you chit chat and joke around.
Can you do a video on ancient Greek cuisine? I would like to see the similarities and differences.