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Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
When in Rome ... or Pompeii.
"Eat like a first-century Roman, using recent archaeological discoveries as your guide."
"In consideration of some of this evidence, if we were to hypothesize that what we’ve read in the Latin literary record about “boiled meat,” “broth and chunks of meat,” and the “reek and fume” of stew houses refers to a popina, then we can also speculate that the bone and shell matter found in the dolium in the newly unearthed popina in Regio V was destined for broth. Does all of this evidence suggest that meat boiled in broth at the corner popina is the Roman version of pub grub? I believe it does, and this now brings us much closer to proposing a first-century Roman meal that could allow us to explore this space using another investigative tool: our taste buds."
Source: www.atlasobscura.com
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