PATINA SOLEARUM (Patina of Sole)

(Apic. 4, 2, 28) Ingredients:

• 1 sole fillet per person
• Olive oil
• White wine
• Pepper
• Lovage (or chopped celery leaves)
• Oregano
• Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Eggs

Instructions:
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Place the sole fillets in a shallow pan. Add the olive oil, white wine and liquamen. Place the fish in an oven for about 20 minutes at 150°C to poach. Whilst the fish is cooking place a pinch of peppercorns, lovage and oregano in a pestle and mortar. Grind well. Add a ladle of the fish poaching liquor to this along with the eggs and work into a smooth mixture. Pour this mix over the soles and return to the oven. Sprinkle with pepper and serve.

 

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The town’s oldest bath complex opens onto Via dell’Abbondanza at the corner of Via Stabiana, not far from the Forum and probably dates from the 2nd century B.C. The establishment covers a total surface area of over 3,500 square metres and is divided into two adjacent section, respectively reserved for men and woman and includes a courtyard which was used as a gymnasium. Three sides of the courtyard have colonnades with stuccoed tuff-stone pillars, while the fourth side borders onto a large swimming-pool one and a half metres deep. Separated from the gymnasium by a low wall, the latter could be reached from two side-rooms where the bathers would probably get changed f ... continue

(Apic. 4, 1, 1) Ingredients:

• 300 gr. homemade bread
• 50 gr. emmenthal
• 1 cucumber
• 1 celery stem
• 1 bunch pennyroyal
• 1 bunch pine-kernel
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 3 chicken livers
• 1 tbsp caper
• 1 egg’s yolk
• 3 anchovy
• Pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• Icy water

Instructions:
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Put in layer, inside a bowl, homemade bread soaked in water and vinegar and then squeezed, finely slic ... 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.