GUSTUM DE PRAECOQUIS (Starter with Apricots)

(Apic. 4, 5, 4) Ingredients:

• 1 kg firm ripe apricots or nectarines
• 200 ml white wine
• 250 ml Passum
• peppermint tea bag (portion for one cup)
• ground pepper
• Liquamen or salt
• cornstarch
• a little bit of vinegar
• honey

Instructions:
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Wash, cut and stone apricots. Put them with a little cold water in a pan. Pulverize ground pepper and dried mint (that's where the tea bag comes handy), add Liquamen or salt, honey, Passum, wine and vinegar. Pour into the pan with a little oil. Cook approximately 20 minutes on small to moderate heat. After it boiled add a bit of cornstarch to thicken the sauce, sprinkle with pepper and serve.

 

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The term amphitheatre is literally defined as the space for the spectators that runs all round the arena. The commemorative inscription attributes its construction to the highest officials in Pompeii, Caius Quintus Valgus and Marcus Portius, who also built the Odeion shortly after the town had acquired the status of Roman colony. The Pompeian Amphitheatre is classed as the oldest of all existing buildings of this kind. To allow easy access, it was built in an area on the outskirts of the town with comparatively few buildings and it was inserted into a corner formed by the town walls in order to make use of the existing embankments on two of its sides. About 20000 peop ... continue

(Apic. 7, 19, 3) Ingredients:

• 8 hard boiled eggs (not too well done - boil ca. 4 minutes)
• 50g stone-pine kernels
• 2 tblsp honey
• 3 tblsp vinegar
• pepper
• Privet
• Liquamen (or salt)

Instructions:
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Dressing for boiled eggs: Mix together pepper, Liebstoeckl, soaked pine
kernels. Add honey and vinegar and season with Liquamen. Serve together
with the eggs.

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.