IN PERDICE (Boiled Partridge)

(Apic. 6, 3, 1) Ingredients:

• 1 partridge for each person
• Pepper
• Lovage (or celery leaves)
• Celery seeds
• Mint
• Myrtle berries (or juniper berries)
• 30 ml red wine
• 30 ml red wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Honey

Instructions:
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Cook the partridge by soaking it in low heated water for about 45 minutes. Grind the spices in a mortar, add honey, wine, vinegar, oil and liquamen. Pour the sauce on the venison and serve.

 

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This building is clearly visible from the sea as it is situated on the promontory of the hill of Pompeii and commands a wide view over the plain below. Passing along Via dell’Abbondanza to the end of Via dei Teatri we find a portico with three Ionic columns and a semicolumn which form the entrance to the Triangular Forum. The Hellenistic style arrangement of the area, which has a colonnade with 95 columns, dates back to the 2nd century B.C. This intervention created a harmonious protective curtain around the pre-existing Doric Temple and at the same time annexed this sacred area to the theatre district and the two gymnasiums as the foursided portico behind the stage of ... continue

(Apic. 9, 10, 2) Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked tuna fillet
• 1/2 tsp ground pepper
• 1/2 tsp privet
• 1/2 tsp thyme
• 1/2 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp rue
• 150 g dates (without stones)
• 1 tblsp honey
• 4 hard boiled eggs (in quarters)
• 50 ml white wine
• 2 tblsp wine vinegar
• 50 ml Defritum (or cooked wine)
• 2-3 tblsp green olive oil

Instructions:
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Cook tuna fillet. Mesh fillet together with dates, honey, wine, vinegar, Defritum (or cooked wine) and oil. Put all into a bowl a ... 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.