APER ITA CONDITUR (Roast Wild Boar)

(Apic. 8, 1, 1) Ingredients:

• Boar meat
• Cumin
• Salt
• Groun pepper
• 2 tbsp honey
• Liquamen (or salt to taste)
• 200 ml caroenum (reduce 500 ml wine to 200 ml)
• 100 ml passum (or dessert wine)

Instructions:
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Remove the bristles and skin of the boar, then scatter over it plenty of sea salt, crushed pepper and coarsely ground roasted cumin. Leave it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days, turning it occasionally. Wild boar can be dry, so wrap it in slices of bacon before you roast it. Then put it into the oven at its highest setting and allow it to brown for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 180°C, and continue to roast for 2 hours per kg, basting regularly. Meanwhile prepare the sauce. To make caroenum, reduce 500ml wine to 200ml. Add honey, passum and Liquamen. Take the meat out of the oven and leave it to rest while you finish the sauce. Pour off the fat from the roasting tin, deglaze it with the wine and the honey mixture. Pour this into a saucepan, add the roasting juices, and fat to taste. Carve the boar into thin slices at the table, and serve the sweet sauce separately.

 

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A mosaic depicting a growling dog and the well-known words of warning ‘cave canem’ (beware of the dog) is the decoration found near the entrance of this medium-sized, imperial style house opposite the Forum baths. The house has a Tuscan atrium and a peristyle with lararium situated on the rear wall. The atrium leads into the cubicula (bedrooms) and the tablinum. The house derives its name from a fine mosaic with a theatrical scene which was found in this tablinum along with paintings representing episodes from the Iliad. These finds are now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. To the right of the peristyle we find the triclinium whose frescoes a ... continue

(Apic. 6, 9, 13) Ingredients:

• 1 fresh chicken (approx. 1-1.5 kg)
• 100 ml oil
• 200 ml Liquamen or 200 ml wine + 2 tsp salt
• 1 branch of leek
• Fresh dill
• Fresh savory
• Coriander
• Pepper to taste
• a little bit of Defritum (or wine syrup)

Instructions:
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Start to fry chicken and season with a mixture of Liquamen and oil, together with bunches of dill, leek, savory and fresh coriander. Then cook approximately 1 hour with 220 deg C in the oven. When the chicken is done, moisten a plate with Defritum ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.