[Sca-cooks] ancient Roman cookery

[Stefan li Rous]

Aurelia said:
> I decided it really was about time for me to officially speak up on
> this list! I am Aurelia Coritana in Ansteorra, a 1st c. Roman-Brit.

Welcome to the SCA-Cooks list!
> My culinary interests are ancient Roman recipes (with fresh
> ingredients, of course, har har.) Does anyone else out there
> experiment with ancient cookery? If you've ever made anything with
> garum, I'd love to hear from you.

I don't remember how many first-hand accounts are in this file, but  
you still might find it interesting:
garum-msg         (55K)  8/22/04    Roman fish sauces made from  
fermented fish.
                                        Also includes comments on  
liquamen.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-CONDIMENTS/garum-msg.html

These other files on Roman food might be of interest as well:
fd-Romans-msg     (15K)  7/ 1/05    Food of Classical Rome. Apicius.
Roman-Recipes-art (19K)  5/31/00    Some recipes from "Anthimus' _De
                                        Obseruatione Ciborum_" by  
Adamantius.
cb-rv-Apicius-msg (46K)  1/23/05    Reviews of cookbooks having  
Apicius recipes.

And since you specifically mentioned Romano-British, there is this  
file in the CLOTHING section:
cl-Rom-Brit-art   (18K) 10/17/95    "Basic Romano-British Clothing"  
by Sion Glas

Stefan
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