[Sca-cooks] frugal gourmet

[Terry Decker]

Historically, this is a little questionable.  The influx of Greek bakers
begins about the time the Romans defeat Macedonia but before their advance
into Greece proper at the end of the Third Punic War.  They weren't slaves,
but commercial bakers looking for a market.  A number of them appear to have
migrated from Greek colonies.

It was the commercial bakers, not the slaves, who controlled the bread
production in Rome.

Bear


>just doing a google search for snippets from the book, I turned up this :
>Ancient Roman Bread
>We are quite sure that when the Romans invaded Greece they had their eating
>habits changed drastically. The Greek slaves who were taken back to Rome
>taught the Romans to use several different flours in a single loaf instead
>of the one common flour that was used in Rome. I think theis recipe is
about
>as close as we come to the flavors that were enjoyed during the early days.
>
>Historically speaking, in general romans practiced monoculture on the
>latifundia where the majority of the grains were grown.
>http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-156.html
>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/butler/annbute.htm
>
>margali