What Did Ordinary Romans Actually Eat Every Day

What Did Ordinary Romans Actually Eat Every Day? Запасные варианты названия: What Poor Romans Really Ate in a Day A Day of Eating Like an Ordinary Roman ОПИСАНИЕ (скопировать целиком): A rich Roman eats roasted dormice in honey. A few streets away, a poor man eats grey porridge and dark bread. Same city, same night. Spend one whole day eating like an ordinary Roman in AD 100: the breakfast that barely existed, puls porridge, free grain for 200,000 people, street food bars on every corner, the fish sauce they poured on everything, what they drank, and the strange feasts of the rich. Plus all the foods no Roman ever tasted. 0:00 Same city, two menus 1:45 Part 1. The breakfast that barely existed 2:59 Part 2. The food that built Rome 4:34 Part 3. Bread for the people 8:11 Part 4. Why Romans didn't cook 9:08 Part 5. The ancient fast food 12:00 Part 6. The sauce made of fish 14:02 Part 7. What Romans drank 15:57 Part 8. The real Roman meal 18:27 Part 9. What no Roman ever tasted 20:15 Part 10. The tables of the rich 24:24 Part 11. The night 24:58 So what did ordinary Romans eat? Sources mentioned: Suetonius, Life of Augustus; Pliny the Elder, Natural History; Juvenal, Satires; Cato the Elder, On Agriculture; Seneca; Petronius, Satyricon; the Apicius cookbook; excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. If you could taste just one Roman food, what would it be: puls, a Pompeii sausage, garum, or a roasted dormouse? Tell me in the comments. #ancientrome #romanhistory #history