IN OVIS APALIS (Boiled Eggs)

(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.

 

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This covered theatre situated near the Large Theatre was mainly used for concerts, although it was also the chosen venue for poetry recitals. It was built by the same two duumviri responsible for the construction of the Amphitheatre during the early years of the Roman colony in an area which had originally been developed by the Samnites. The tiered seating was cut away to one side to allow the construction of a perimeter wall designed to support the foursided roof. The first seats in front of the orchestra hemicycle, which was paved with slabs of coloured marble chips, were reserved for the decurions and were laid out on top of four rows of wide tuffstone steps. The ti ... continue

(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 th ... 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.