What did the Ancient Romans eat?

[@BenSHammonds]

very enjoyable program

[@Salento69]

I live in the deep south of Italy, and growing vegetables is still something almost everybody does around here. The majority of people here own a patch of land where they grow their own vegetables. Often there are olive trees as well

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

United States born and raised and my mom’s garden was always great. She’d always grow tomatoes, strawberries and peppers. On top of having fresh produce, she also just loves having a garden. She’d make tomato sauces and fried green tomatoes.

[@marilyn6556]

My father put in a very nice garden. We had strawberries, corn, peas, green beans, onions, carrots,peppers, grapes and a few fruit trees that didn’t produce much fruit, but they were young. My mother made delicious food, and she also froze a lot of vegetables, and made jam. We bought cherries, peaches, grapes, plums, pears, and apples in the fall from orchards. There were 6 of us kids, and my parents kept us well fed!!!

[@terrapax8554]

Born in East Germany, my parents always had a Garden and grew alot of produce. People shared and swapped, till today, in Germany.

[@lauvasquez8030]

@@marilyn6556 That sounds lovely!

[@loreCarbonell]

I tuoi sono ancora vivi? I miei tutti morti nel 2014, danata xylella

[@blueduck9409]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!

[@Ksennie]

great job! My only critique though is that you left out Rosemary from the herb list! It's still a critical component of the cuisine local to modern Rome today!

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Thanks! Yes, I did not include all the herbs in the list because they were too many. However, I did mention rosemary in specific recipes.

[@XellossBoi]

Very thorough and well presented. Probably the best I've seen on the subject of food history!

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Thank you kindly!

[@JustDucky-d9k]

I agree.

[@francisadams-u9l]

This is a very good video for anybody doing research on ancient foods. It is interesting to note that vinegar and olive oil is still used in salads today.

[@ubroberts5541]

Purslane. I have wild purslane growing in my yard in Arizona. The plant has amazing nutritional value.

[@robertojosedgzmoro]

And it is delicious!

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

Wild purslane is a vegetable eaten along with pork, in Mexico, where it is also found in some markets. The plant is easily found in Ontario, Canada as well. I have heard that purslane originally came from India, but I don't know. 😊

[@John-mf6ky]

It's naturalized in the Americas, and actually considered invasive in the SW. I guess it was brought to the Americas by the natives before colonial times.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I live in the arid zone in Australia, purslane is one of the plants that comes up after a decent rainfall, I often thought of picking some to eat, but can't get over eating a weed.

[@nildabridgeman8104]

Lots of great information.. Thankyou so much 🍇 🫒

[@henrikgustafsson6385]

More food programes, please! Lovely company while eating supper.

[@dianedylan5423]

For great food history videos,, check out the channel"tasting history with Max Miller". He actually made garum...twice!

[@John-nu1vp]

Seriously loved this video. I don't know many other chefs with ancient history degrees but it was right up my street. On the grains it would be worth noting the difference in nutritional value. The vitamin and protein contents were off the charts compared to modern varieties and so a slice of Roman bread would be equivalent to a slice of modern bread with a thin slice of chicken and some salad. Thanks for this video

[@Jeff-cn9up]

Their grains were much more primitive and worse than ours, not better.

[@John-nu1vp]

@@Jeff-cn9up 🤣 ok Jeff

[@Jeff-cn9up]

@@John-nu1vp Okay bonehead.

[@chefscorner7063]

​@@Jeff-cn9upI'm getting some conflicting information also. At least the info isn't from the same source. LOL

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

​@@Jeff-cn9up their grains were pure, no questionable secret GMO and always organic. I absolutely would love the bread made with such wonderful grains.

[@casteretpollux]

This put a whole new light on the French term for swimming pool " piscine" 🐟 🐠 🐟

[@peacemaker2988]

they ate way healthier than we do today thank you for the video mate was great.

[@John-mf6ky]

There's really nothing keeping people from eating healthy today. Price can be a factor, sure, but you can still eat healthy on the cheap, albeit very simply.

[@darioburatovich2240]

​​​​@@John-mf6ky lentils, beans, kinoa, corn, rice are cheap. And so are most common vegetables and fruits. Meat doesn't need to be a gigantic steak, neither fish a whole tuna. A bit of spices,and to drink , water instead of sugary soft drinks, and some acceptable wine in logic quantities, or beer. And that's it, and away from.junkfood. It doesn't need to be "boring", ask the Italians.. But yes, you need to cook.

[@jebes909090]

they basically had no choice. we have TOO much choice

[@jona_KardCiv1]

It's shocking how complex Roman society was that long ago.

[@zulazhar1259]

Yep almost 2000 years ago. Imagine if we have detailed view of every culture like the romans.

[@shriekingbushpigshrieking]

they wanted everything we want

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Roman society evolved over many hundreds of years, and to a great degree absorbed much of the evolved traits of the even more ancient Greek culture(s).

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Well humans havent really changed much for thousands and thousands of years. Evolution is very slow!

[@anneshalaby8910]

Not really. They weren't primitive just because they were "ancient".

[@bcfu8146]

Amazing, content, depth, narration and visualisations. Thank you making this very well researched documentary.

[@TarpeianRock]

Great vid, very thorough, thanks. One thing though : there’s no such thing as an electric moray eel. There’s no moray eel that is electric, some types of other eels can be electric.

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Thank you for the clarification. I will add this to the notes in the description.

[@prototropo]

The pastry layered with feta and honey sounds great, as does the deep-fried Greek bread, and the pork and fowl dishes. There are several cookbooks out with recipes from Antiquity, both as-was, and altered for modern cook who just can't find flamingo tongue for 8 by Saturday.(Apulius was one famous chef).

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent pictures/drawings enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Phenomenal description of spices/fruits and nuts.🤗

[@nimblehuman]

'Piscina' is the word I learned in Spanish for a swimming pool. Never realized until this video that this is a reference to a literal fish pond 💀

[@AS-np3yq]

Pesce...

[@RustyHBriggs]

Piscis= fish (Latin)

[@lauvasquez8030]

Yeah! Spanish is a romance/Latin-based language. So a lot of words come from that and sound similar. Pretty cool.

[@noahlenten8360]

also a lot like piss in english

[@John-mf6ky]

​@@noahlenten8360 from what I've heard, the word "piss" actually comes from the sound you make while you're "pissing" 😅😅

[@NutsSilk]

I really enjoy and feel great curiosity about everyday life in ancient times. I really hope to catch more videos like this in your channel, thanks!

[@Sam2sham]

Great video. The Romans had a great variety of foods avaliable. I have always wondered about what they had, a lot seemed very modern.

[@harukrentz435]

What do you mean by "very modern"? They even drunk different wine.

[@Sam2sham]

​@@harukrentz435a modern version of everything he mentioned is available in modern stores. They had a suprisingly modern food distribution system. What did you expect, I didn't say they had a Krogers and a mcdonalds, however a big mac is bread, meat, cheese, spices, and vegtables. Which they had.

[@EddieWhitmon]

@@Sam2sham It's not modern, it went bad!

[@Sam2sham]

@EddieWhitmon right, they didn't have cellphones. I realize that is the true sign of intelligence and advanced civilization.

[@mcbrians.8508]

yeah they’re all set. it’s the peak of the ancient world.

[@Murgatroyd999]

Very interesting video, really enjoyed seeing the different types of bread & all of the cool frescoes. Thank you!

[@sammy41819]

The content is great, the background music is a perfect fit and the best was the voice which was what particularly attracted me to stay as it is so refreshing and without any foolish tones or faces like most videos today where some type of comedy is in all of them. I appreciate also the structure and selection of words which did not defile, like when it was reference the less reputable offerings in thermopoliums.

[@robertbeaty4088]

Peacocks do not lay eggs; peahens do

[@user-sf7og5ke7p]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@aguythatworkstoomuch4624]

Peacocks do lay eggs. Every species of bird lays eggs

[@lordnul1708]

​@@aguythatworkstoomuch4624 > The joke >Your head

[@catherinejohnson8478]

LOVE it!!

[@ellacarson2048]

@@aguythatworkstoomuch4624but it’s always the female who lays them, not the male. The Peacock is male, peahen is female

[@livrowland171]

Interesting video, and their diet looks varied and tasty. I'd go to a Roman restaurant :-)

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I would skip some of the offerings particularly Garum.

[@lindaardigo5456]

I truly enjoy these beautiful and transporting videos. Grazie

[@rmp7400]

Roman soldiers RELIED on chick peas/garbanzo beans: they travelled well (not heavy or easily spoiled) & reliably provided protein, fiber, energy .. My maternal grandmother was of direct ancient Roman descent - and, yes, taught her son (my dad) to rely on olives/olive oil, & keeping a garden (even in the city) for his own apple trees ...and especially tomatoes for sauces. I was NOT INTERESTED in gardening (after seeing the huge stinger on a hidden tomato worm!😲)..but I did bake many apple pies & sweet breads w raisins & almonds🤗

[@Azazel2024]

Probably had tremendous wind

[@Thewholetree]

​@@Azazel2024if you read ancient Roman comedy, yes, fart jokes were a big thing

[@rmp7400]

@@Azazel2024 Maybe not so much! Garbanzo beans, like lentils, are legumes but with fewer carbohydrates than the other members of the bean family - more like grain. They can be digested as an important protein source even by those who cannot deal with ANY other type of "bean": white, black, red or green!😎

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

@@rmp7400 they invited the pizzoid...the pizza that walks like a man. Delivers it's self, but sometimes it never arrives. Eating peaple & it's self...😂😂😂😂

[@marjoriegarner5369]

It is Garbanzo beans. Not Gazebo beas

[@AmericanBeautyCorset]

I dont know how recent this Video is BUT There is an archeologist who has been searching for the plant Sylphium! In ancient times, there was a Greek city that used to grow the plant. It's quite possible that he may have found it growing wild in mountains type region. The Romans tried to grow and cultivate it. It never grew. Its an interesting subject..thats why i know about it, Garum also.😅

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Yes, it was the Greek city of Cyrene, located in modern Libya. This is why the Romans called it Silphium Cyrenaicum. However, it has been extinct for 2,000 years now.

[@michaelrobertson7096]

@@historicaladventurevideos It has recently been reported that Silphium has been rediscovered, growing somewhere in Turkiye.

[@guycalabrese4040]

Halfway in to the video it seems like modern french cuisine is a mirror of ancient roman cuisine. Fois gras, snails with garlic.

[@rmp7400]

Yep! The French are the Romanized Celts & Germans....

[@superpepz]

Well, we also eat snails and fois gras in Spain

[@guycalabrese4040]

@@superpepz Well, Spain was a very important part of the roman empire, so nothing new there. Why do think spanish is a latin language? Your comment seems a bit strange to me.

[@superpepz]

@@guycalabrese4040 Strange? I was just adding some information, that's all. Anyhow, sorry for the inconvenience.

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

​@@superpepz No, you're not an inconvenience. I didn't know that you guys ate fois gras and snails! I liked your comment. Idk what's up that other person's cheeks, but you did absolutely nothing wrong.

[@aemiliadelroba4022]

Also , they have pizza ( flat bread ) and cheeses 🧀, nuts, .

[@sarahm9723]

They do now, and Italy has the most delicious pizzas! Back during the Roman Empire, they had not yet come up with it. They did have many flatbreads that they put foods on, and also used to carry food into their mouths. Back then, they did have fresh cheeses, curd cheeses, and cured cheeses, but they weren't meltable. 🤷Ultimately the most "meltable" of the curd cheeses was achieved in the 1600s when they began to knead the cheese, and one type ended up called mozzarella. Mozza means to pull or knead, I think?

[@ubroberts5541]

But no tomatoes. They would come some 1500 years later from the new world.

[@sarahm9723]

@@ubroberts5541 It's amazing what Italians managed to do with some pasta and a few tomatoes! YUM!

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

Little Caesars... Pizza! Pizza!😂😂😂😂

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

​@@sarahm9723I know right! 😅 God bless da godfather, a pizza you's can't refuse 😂😂😂

[@ranuelthebard3751]

Recipes for several of the dishes mentioned in this video can be found in Max Miller's cookbook Tasting History and presented on his KZbin channel of the same name.

[@tjlambaes]

It is cool to know that ancient people ate out like I do, not bc they are alone and depressed but bc they didn’t have a stove.

[@thejoshuaproject3809]

Can you use a hot plate, small induction stove, and a slow cooker at your place?

[@stevelauda5435]

Very informative , a d , most interesting film!

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

Interestingly, there is a team of historians who think they discovered an extant population of silphium in Anatolia.

[@TotalyRandomUsername]

3:17 This i a highly idealized version of a roman kitchen. In earlier times Furniture, Cutlery and everything that needed time to produce and was expensive was build and used for generations. So i would guess, it was not all nice and new and clean but most of everything looked and was like 100 years in use, with lots of wear and a patina from decades of wood smoke, oils and greese.

[@douglasgault5458]

I worked for a European born boss for 7 yrs named Jerry. Who used to cook up all of these ancient recipes for the help. Well some were good and some where horrible, while most would fall into an acquired taste needed category.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Jerry, very European? There is a KZbinr, his surname is Miller, he prepares ancient dishes, he even made Garum, the quick way and the long way.

[@flaitmonstar917]

YEEEES THE BEST INFOOOOOO

[@LaineyBug2020]

I can't remember where I read or watched it, but there's supposed to be some botanists that think the ancient Silphium was a cross between 2 plants that grew near each other and think they are close to reproducing it...

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Some extinct plants are there somewhere in some neglected piece of ground.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Lived in north Italia, in the 1960s, our, diets weren't much different? Fresh bread, everyday, wasn't unusual! Small village living, excellent!

[@matthewakian2]

I'm hungry now after watching this!

[@maksphoto78]

So am I! share some Garum!

[@matthewakian2]

@@maksphoto78 On french fries?

[@maksphoto78]

@@matthewakian2 Gaelic fries

[@grovermartin6874]

​@@matthewakian2The potato was not brought to Europe until the Spaniards brought it from the New World. So, no potatoes until after 1492.

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

And fine wine, the grapes 🍇 are crushed by the finest toes in all of Italy! Good toe wine😂😂😂😂

[@samdefore2692]

Really is shocking how sophisticated Roman culture and society were, 2000 years later Western society isn’t that much different.

[@takirosh]

People don't really change all that much. What does change is how much we know compared to then, our building techniques and how many practical luxuries our lives contain. I'd even say that a fully traimed Roman Engineer could rival our modern ones in sheer skill.

[@richardnaysmith6040]

Caligula 👹👺🔥

[@salvation2979]

not much has changed in Italy since then lol. That cuisine is still eaten there. Including Garum which is still made there.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Wow, I am so glad I missed the garum.

[@Havenwyck_Media]

Thank for this lovey look into the past.

[@rundbaum]

i just thought of a good book--"the Famous Roman Cook!" what a story of the star cooks you said populated rome, that would be fascinating to read . . .

[@oneilluminatus]

Anybody else got hungry while watching this video, or was it just me??

[@jirikurto3859]

I am doing an enema right now and all I can think about is chili.

[@Thewholetree]

​@@jirikurto3859not everything needs to be shared on the internet

[@jodyel]

@@jirikurto3859 TMI

[@DanielPlainsight]

HOLD UP! What am I reading here? You are telling me that, watching a video containing various types of foods is triggering a response in your body that makes it crave FOOD?! Not only could I never imagine ANYONE relating to this comment, but I (don't think I am being irrational making this statement) would even go so far to say that you are mentally unstable and need to seek help as this is by definition, unusual.

[@Sam-vh9zs]

I think you’re the only one

[@matthewakian2]

Great vid. Thanks.,

[@arturovaldes546]

I am sure that the animals killed in the arena, were used to feed people. The Roman's were not going to let go to waste a nice hippopotamus , etc.

[@Azazel2024]

They were in fact sold as snacks for the poor / and not poor attendees of the games which were free

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

And at the Olive Garden 😂😂😂😂

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

They ate fresh kill. Delicious raw kill, after it die dead 😂😂😂😂

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Yummy, boiled hippo meat.

[@hernancortez5392]

Very intresting and well presented

[@Dewajtis1944]

dobra robota ! podoba mi się ten film, jest bardzo merytoryczny - czekam na kolejny Pozdrawiam

[@Storiediroma]

The king returned 👑

[@historicaladventurevideos]

:)

[@JanKeenan]

Interesting, thank you.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Our diets are not very different from those of the Romans, but the way of preparing the same grains, vegetables and products of animal origin (milk and its derivatives, eggs and meat) are different. But the Romans were probably healthier because they didn't eat foods grown with carcinogenic poisons, processed on an industrial scale containing preservatives, harmful chemical residues and even microplastics. The Romans had a grain goddess, to whom they made offerings. But Ceres would reject offerings made by modern men, because they would be full of infernal taints.

[@change691]

It's a trade off for having antibiotics, vaccines, survivable surgery practices, medications instead of just herbs, and everything else we enjoy in our modern world.

[@Thewholetree]

​@@change691just because we have vaccines and penicillin doesn't mean we need to be spraying carcinogenic toxins on our crops. Apples and oranges my friend

[@AS-np3yq]

Ceres is just a daemon.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I don't know a stone statue would reject anything. At least she's a plantoid now.

[@dougdouglas2112]

Good video. Liked & subscribed

[@WeldonKilburn]

You could follow up with a video on Roman cooking utensils. Many of these were made of Lead.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

The water pipes were lead.

[@tiberiusG]

Sorry to be pedantic, but those baby carrots at 2:35 are really sticking out like a sore thumb lol. During ancient Roman times, carrots were more often purple or white, and obviously never shaped like that. The research, composition, presentation and lighting that went into these photos weren't bad, I'm just baffled as to why they settled for peeled baby carrots. Maybe that was the only kind they had at the supermarket that day?

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Most of the photos depicting ancient Roman foods in this video (including that one you pointed out) are from a project in Germany where they cooked recipes from Apicius' book, 'De Re Coquinaria.' I suppose they made some changes to make the dishes more appetizing (because they were actually going to eat them) or you might be right that it was the only kind available at the supermarket that day.

[@isaacspoppa]

I heard the romans also like dino nuggies .

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

No you're not sorry. Try finding some purple carrots or ancient looking carrots at the supermarket. There were some purple carrots at my supermarket and no one would buy them.

[@gerryleb8575]

Petronius Satyricon has lots of references to the food. It describes a banquet attended by several immensely wealthy freedmen. These were former slaves who were freed, became part of the familia of their former masters, and basically were the technocrats of Rome.

[@clearskies2]

Tremalchio's feast?

[@angelone8564]

Who else thought about what a starter from the ancient sourdough would be like..

[@ferengiprofiteer9145]

Pretty much ought to be like modern. Flour and water sours after about a week.

[@TassanoTassano]

@@ferengiprofiteer9145

[@nilo70]

Cheers From your newest subscriber from California 😎

[@pazooter]

Okay, lentaculum translates to, "tapestry. Seems a lot could have been said about that.

[@tilasole3252]

Would love a video about ancient slings, if you have not done one already

[@POLISHAMERICANLEGIONS]

Greetings from McLean Virginia I just share with worldwide famous Italian shirt maybe of course he maybe saw your video his name is Roberto Donna for my Galileo restaurant now he's a small place Roberto's restaurant

[@richardnaysmith6040]

Did they grow and wipe/corn 🌽🥦!?

[@jeffyoung60]

That Roman food looks highly appropriate for Diabetic IIs and Is. That's exactly the kind of food that the doctors struggle to convince diabetics to limit themselves.

[@Azazel2024]

Carbs are cheap

[@MihaiRUdeRO]

True, but people also exercised more and didn't eat anywhere near as much sugar. It's just a carb-heavy diet, which is fine if you're burning off the carbs by walking or working immediately after

[@JustDucky-d9k]

@@MihaiRUdeRO Exactly right. Modern day foods have way too much sugar which is a problem.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

At least they used honey, not refined sugar from Sugar Cane or Sugar Beet.

[@primaryendo]

Whats the name of the song at the beginning? Great video too, i enjoyed it!

[@yorlingrivera2562]

“Cena”in Spanish we say “Cena”last meal.

[@Azazel2024]

How can you see him tho ?

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

@@Azazel2024 Maybe John Cena never existed in the first place. Maybe the real John Cena was the friends we made along the way.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Cena means dinner in Italian, it isn't pronounced like cena in Latin.

[@mariebrown5681]

❤ Very good! Thank you.

[@verribarry]

The edible dormouse was farmed and eaten by the ancient Romans, the Gauls, and the Etruscans (usually as a snack), hence the word edible in its name

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

How nice, small furry animals that breed quickly. Sounds a logical thing to do like guinea pigs in South America.

[@Pan_and_pots]

I just try and be myself, thats a place I feel comfortable opening up about.

[@Betterhealths]

amazing video

[@ibh2294]

The ancient Romans were feasting on ancient Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapples, twirling ancient pasta like pros, and grating some prehistoric Parmigiano Reggiano straight from the gods! Caesar’s favorite cheat day meal, no doubt!

[@potatojoe370]

When he said convivium, I immediately thought,...welease woger!

[@kyungkim2446]

Biggus Dickus!

[@nimblehuman]

Do you find something wisible???

[@darkknight1340]

"Let me come with you, Ponthius. I may be of thome athithtanth should a thudden crithith arithe" "Come along then Biggus".

[@ozarkoutpost]

What about Woderwick or Wupert?

[@DancingPony1966-kp1zr]

Yea, the original was more likely was more likely a cross between our ‘b’ and our ‘v’ than our ‘w.’ Latin may have sounded more like German than Italian as we know it.

[@glenrich-uu9zr]

From the informations of this video, there was no hardships of dinning in the Roman period. It may be so perfect of meals of natural ingredients that many people are promoting today.

[@tywinlannister8341]

Basically nothing has changed 😀 Great video, thank you!

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

They ordered little Caesars, on weekends 😂😂😂😂

[@HearturMind]

It’s a shame the dinner photo showed “baby carrots”. That is an extremely modern food. It is a food one may want to avoid as well. The carrots with flaws bought by these companies and are ground down to this shape and you the consumer pay more for them. I appreciate your efforts to make this well researched video though.

[@Azazel2024]

Wild carrots are tiny..they would have been small but not uniform, you're correct there

[@raffaellavitiello1762]

&

[@dvd727]

Little known fact that it was the ancient Romans who popularized baby carrots lol

[@JustDucky-d9k]

Are you saying they weren't smart enough to chop carrots into shapes?

[@HearturMind]

@JustDucky-d9k Right, sure. They took knives and carved them into that ground down exact same shape of machine prepared baby carrots.

[@freddobbs4437]

Didn't the Roman people make a fish paste and smear it on to flat bread for a meal? I think that was a pretty common 'fast food' food item in their day!

[@carolhutchins8995]

As someone who has raised rabbits, I have to ask, HOW THE HELL DO YOU MILK A RABBIT?

[@historicaladventurevideos]

That is a good question. I suppose they used a lot of force to restrain it. The amount of milk it would produce would also be very minimal. Rabbit milk in general was rare, though, and mostly mentioned as an ingredient in ''patrician'' recipes.

[@Azazel2024]

Your last name is HUTCHins 🤣🤗, I'm sorry but that's funny

[@carlosflores4380]

"you can milk anyting that has nipples" -sun tzu

[@wackyruss]

LOL, I too was a Rabbit Raiser in the FFA. I’m sure you could milk a bunny if it was lactating. You’d have to grab that mama wabbit and hold her tight! Then start milking them bunny nips!

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

With difficulty, I guess Romans could milk mammal, even those Dolphins they ate.

[@goombabear]

This video is making me hungry.

[@bharathpactor4090]

Excellent!

[@AI_Image_Master]

Utterly fascinating.

[@Mrcurious0323]

The early Republic, 700-200BC, food was more simple and citizens were definitely more rural and had their own gardens. Later republic going into empire, 200BC-400sAD, food was more plentiful and extravagant considering they owned all kinds of agriculture. They also drank a lot more alcohol and had frequent banquets (drinking parties). There were points where unemployed Roman citizens ate just as well as working citizens, as the empire became very wealthy. You can reference Will Durant's Story of Civilization

[@keithgordon4153]

Love Tuscan.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

They are just one type of Italian. Savonarola was Tuscan?

[@Milo-l4g]

The mediterranean diet is timeless

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I give a misse to some of those foods, like the pig's head or pig ears or moray eels or dolphins or peafowls or flamingos and no garum.

[@dukenegju]

Was there any grain vinegar btw? Love

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

You can make vinegar out of anything with carbohydrates like sugar, grains have sugar, starch...

[@markmuller7962]

Oh boy I've never gotten this hungry watching a video 🤤

[@georgetteconstant9050]

Bet they would have liked my Baklava. Thanks for posting this.

[@suechef9026]

Sweet! Thanks!

[@lenoreandreas4000]

My father said that halava eaten with a green grape in the same bite was an ancient Roman delicacy. I have no idea if this was true or not.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Well I can't prove him wrong. Honestly Halava sounds and looks very foreign like something you'll find in a Turkish market or in Tunis.

[@lenoreandreas4000]

@ I grew up with it. In Chicago. :)

[@josephel4292]

Sounds to me like the ancient Romans ate fairly well.

[@asullivan4047]

Along with a fairly healthy diet-🤗

[@asullivan4047]

Along with a fairly healthy diet🤗

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

The major part of the population did not eat Peafowl or Flamingos, probably a lot of bread, olive oil, olives, garum, eggs and cheese.

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

The Romans knew Taro?! I always thought that's a polynesian thing, but appearantly it's much wider spread than that.

[@schnetzelschwester]

It was cultivated in India since 5000 BC, now it is spread all over the world, and there are different taro species on different continents. The Romans traded with India, and they might have managed to grow it by themselves. It needs warmth and humidity, I would bet on the delta of Nile to cultivate Taro.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Yes, my ears pricked up when I heard Taro. Rome had a lot of trade contact with Africa and with India. At first I thought he meant Locus bulbs.

[@srypWned]

sounds way better than my current diet 😂

[@paul888B]

The Morey and the electric eel are two totally different fishes

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Please check the description notes.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Doesn't matter, revotlting species no matter what. And why eat such things?

[@samr.england613]

By sometime in the 3rd Century A.D., most Romans gave up the practice of reclining, usually on their bellies, to dine. It was a dumb way to eat. The continental and northern European Celts, and other Europeans, ate while sitting in a chair at a table. The Romans found this much more comfortable for eating.

[@christelmayer]

Yes! Learned that in French class in 6th grade in Germany😊

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

What did you learn?

[@KEMET1971]

Private gardens that included a variety of vegetables and grains were ubiquitous among the elite of ancient Egypt.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

They ate a lot of pasta, olive oil, anchovies and other seafood. They also invented pizza without tomato sauce which is a new world item

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I don't think they ate pasta.

[@TheGaetano01]

Fish was rarely eaten in Rome before the Punic Wars? That's unbelievable.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

The Romans seem to be landlubbers. They couldn't build good ships until they found a Carthaginian ship and copied it. I am sure by the time they defeated the Samnites and took over Pompeii and areas around the Bay of Naples, they Romans were eating lots of seafood.

[@ponchoslappatv5358]

They were really unlocking different consumables 😭

[@katiaantonova6949]

This was eye opening and well done but as a vegan, I had to pause towards the end of the meat section because it started grossing me out. :D

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Oh, poor little you. What did you expect? There were no vegans in those days.

[@mariebrown5681]

😆😆🥱

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

Same. It makes me ill.

[@awaxx7863]

How much time must pass before something is referred to as ancient?

[@JustDucky-d9k]

At least 2000 years or older.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Depends. If you are older than 30 you are ancient, older than that, a fossil.

[@SatansSimgma]

Cream Ofsumg Yunggi was a fav

[@counterflow5719]

Tell me exactly and in detail what the Roman soldiers did with the salt that they were paid with.

[@schnetzelschwester]

Barter trade? In territories far from any coast salt was very expensive. Gimme de chicken, have some salt. In occupied Germany: Gimme de woman, have some salt.

[@counterflow5719]

@@schnetzelschwester they were willing to march off to war for a bag of salt. What were they doing with it that made it so valuable to them.

[@JustDucky-d9k]

Probably sold it for a profit to wherever they were going. Not everyone had salt, it was a valuable commodity.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

I think they were paid in money.