What did ancient romans eat ?
Look to a Roman Phrase for an answer: “Bread and Circusus.” Bread has been the stuff of life for centuries though what the Romans ate was rather different from the fluffy white Wonderbread of 2008. Coarse, rather sour, but it was what kept people content. Aside from bread, sheep provided mutton, there was pork & beef but in lesser amounts but for the wealthy an exotic array of goodies from snails and eels to quail & even peacocks graced the table. Oh and OLIVES, they were big on Olives, but again very briny and unlike modern olives, more like those specialty olives people pay a fortune for. Gonna go now with cut & paste! http://www.coquinaria.nl/english/recipes… “””The Romans knew several kinds of bread. Mostly these breads were made with sourdough. The bread could be made of wheat, spelt, barley, millet or rice. Even ground pulses were used. In the second century before Christ bread started to displace
