INGREDIENTS
This fermented fish sauce was the most famous Roman seasoning.
What is garum?
Wealthy Romans ate formal meals while reclining on these couches.
What are triclinia (or dining couches)?
This porridge-like dish was the ancient Roman equivalent of “everyday breakfast.”
What is puls?
This was the most common drink in Rome, often diluted with water.
What is wine?
Most Romans bought their bread from these communal commercial establishments.
What are bakeries?
Romans imported this sweetener from Spain and Greece before sugar existed.
What is honey?
This was the largest and most luxurious meal of the day.
What is cena?
A stuffed dish using dormice was a delicacy served at elite feasts.
What is glires?
The Romans drank a warm mulled wine known as this.
What is mulsum?
These multi-story apartment blocks, home to much of the urban poor, often lacked kitchens.
What are insulae?
This grain, used to make puls, was a staple food of poorer Romans.
What is barley?
At banquets, this room, whose name means “three couches,” was the center of upper-class dining.
What is the triclinium?
This pastry-like dish with layers of dough and cheese resembles a modern lasagna.
What is tracta?
his drink, made by soldiers, mixed sour wine with water and herbs.
What is posca?
Soldiers often carried these compact Roman “energy bars”: dried fruits and nuts.
What are cibaria (or Roman rations)?
Wealthy Romans used this rare spice from India, the most expensive in the empire.
What is pepper?
Diners used their hands to eat, but occasionally this utensil appeared, mostly for serving. (Still used present time).
What is a spoon?
Romans enjoyed this early sausage, seasoned with pine nuts and pepper.
What is lucanica?
Romans believed this unfermented grape juice was healthier than wine
What is mustum (must)?
This street food stall served cheap meals to workers on the go.
What is a thermopolium?
omans harvested this pungent Mediterranean herb that flavored sauces and breads, known to them as allium.
What is garlic?
his custom required guests to wash hands before and after eating using special attendants.
What is ablution?
A dish of boiled wine reduced to syrup, used to flavor sweets and meats.
What is defrutum?
Wealthy Romans added this expensive Middle Eastern resin to flavor elite wines.
What is myrrh?
Bread was graded into different qualities, and this whitest, finest flour bread was reserved for the
What is siligo?