IN VITULINAM ELIXAM (Boiled Veal)

(Apic. 8, 5, 3) Ingredients:

• 800 g – 1 kg veal
• 2 tblsp honey
• 2 tblsp vinegar
• 100 ml oil
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 100 ml white wine + 1 tsp salt)
• Pepper
• Privet
• Cumin
• Celery seeds to taste
• a little bit of cornstarch

Instructions:
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Cook the veal for about 1 1/2 hour until well done. Mix together honey, vinegar, oil, liquamen and spices in an extra pan. Boil the sauce only shortly and thicken it with cornstarch. Then pour sauce over the veal and let boil on low heat for another 10 minutes. Serve.

 

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A multitude of inscriptions covered the facade of this house, but they were unfortunately lost in the bombardment of 1943. In the front, the house is laid out around an atrium with a basin in the centre, surrounded by the various rooms. The first cubicle on the left is decorated with full II style paintings with the name of the owner of the house, Valens, scratched into one of the walls. In another cubicle, on the right, the discovery of a casket with precious objects and ointment jars would seem to indicate that it was the mistress’s bedroom. On this side there is also a rectangular hall with birds and other animals painted on the back-ground walls. As usual, the b ... continue

(Apic. exc. 17) Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked and prepared big shrimps
• 1 tsp green pepper
• 1 tblsp Privet
• 1/2 tsp ground celery seeds
• 2-3 tblsp vinegar
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 1/2 tsp salt)
• 4-5 hacked hard-boiled egg yolks

Instructions:
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Cook shrimps. Then mesh ground pepper, celery seeds and privet. Pour vinegar, Liquamen and egg yolks over it and mix thoroughly. Pour the mixture over the shrimps and serve.

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.