What did the Ancient Romans eat?
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Published 2024-03-01
00:00 - 01:28 Introduction
01:29 - 07:40 Meals, Cooking & Taverns
07:41 - 12:44 Cereals
12:45 - 13:22 Legumes
13:23 - 15:40 Vegetables
15:41 - 21:18 Meat
21:19 - 24:06 Eggs & Dairy
24:07 - 27:40 Seafood
27:41 - 29:04 Olives & Olive Oil
29:05 - 32:25 Herbs & Spices
32:26 - 35:13 Fruits & Nuts
35:14 - 37:07 Sweets
Note 1: Gudgeon is actually a freshwater fish, I mistakenly placed Gudgeon in the saltwater fish category.
Note 2: Dolphins are mammals but I included them in the fish category for the sake of convenience.
Note 3: If you want to take a look at how, many of the foods I mentioned in the video, are made, make sure to check out this channel:@HistoricalItalianCooking
Note 4: At some point, I mistakenly say that the Romans kept electric eels as pets in their pools. They did not have electric eels but European moray eels.
Music by:
Farya Faraji: @faryafaraji
Stefanos Krasopoulis/Στέφανος Κρασοπούλης: @stefanoskrasopoulis
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A Big Thank You to my Patreon members: Robert G Ferrick
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Sources:
-Patrick Faas, 'Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome'
-Marco Gavio de Rubeis, 'Ancient Roman Cooking: Ingredients, Recipes, Sources'
-Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), 'Naturalis Historia'
-Marcus Gavius Apicius, 'De Re Coquinaria'
-Marcus Terentius Varro, 'De Re Rustica'
-Marcus Porcio Cato, 'De Agri Cultura'
-Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, 'De Re Rustica'
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All Comments (21)
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'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 💀
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Very thorough and well presented. Probably the best I've seen on the subject of food history!
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Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
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This put a whole new light on the French term for swimming pool " piscine" 🐟 🐠 🐟
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very enjoyable program
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Lots of great information.. Thankyou so much 🍇 🫒
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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.
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Great video. The Romans had a great variety of foods avaliable. I have always wondered about what they had, a lot seemed very modern.
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Wonderful video. Thanks. Don't spare the garum.
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When he said convivium, I immediately thought,...welease woger!
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Halfway in to the video it seems like modern french cuisine is a mirror of ancient roman cuisine. Fois gras, snails with garlic.
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Very interesting video, really enjoyed seeing the different types of bread & all of the cool frescoes. Thank you!
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More food programes, please! Lovely company while eating supper.
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I'm hungry now after watching this!
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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!
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Anybody else got hungry while watching this video, or was it just me??
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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...
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Great vid. Thanks.,
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Interesting video, and their diet looks varied and tasty. I'd go to a Roman restaurant :-)
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Roman soldiers RELIED on chick peas/gazebo 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🤗
