How Many Foods Did The Romans Eat?!?
the Romans ate a wide variety of foods. For the poor in the cities the basic food was a porridge (puls) made of wheat ground up and mixed with water. In the country greater variety was possible. The poorer peasants would grind up a sauce of herbs and vegetables with oil, adding cheese if they were lucky enough to have any. People who owned a little land might grow cabbages or leaks, and some might keep a pig and smoke its meat inside their homes. People lucky enough to have their own ovens would bake their own bread. They would grind their grain daily, mix it with salt and water, and then bake it in the oven or by a fire. From the 2nd century BC professional bakers appeared in Rome. It was a Roman baker, a freed slave from Greece, who introduced the first mechanical dough mixer. dough, leven and water were placed in a stone basin and wodden paddles, powered by horses or donkeys, kneaded the mixture. For the wealthier Roman, the most important social occasion was the banquet when friend
