SALA CATTABIA (Picene bread)

(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 sliced cucumber, cheese, capers, chiken’s liver cooked in wine and pine-kernels. Whip all the other ingredient until obtain a sauce and then pour it on bread. Keep in the fridge, then serve.

 

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This is the oldest existing Basilica, dating back to the 2nd century B.C. The seat of the law courts was here and commercial and financial transactions also took place. After a portico comes the main entrance, which opened on the forum and, differently from the majority of basilicas, is located on one of the building’s short sides. The tribunal, part of the Basilica where the law-courts were, was on the short side, opposite the entrance, and consisted in a two meter high podium on top of which were six Corinthian columns. There are no stairs to the podium, this suggests that it could only be reached through wooden stairs, which could be removed in order to separate the ... continue

(Apic. 8, 7, 8) Ingredients:

• 1 suckling pig
• Pepper
• Lovage (or chopped celery leaves)
• Caraway seed
• Celery seed
• Rue
• 2 drops asafoetida essence
• 3 tsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 3 tbsp white wine
• 1 tbsp Passum
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp cornflour

Instructions:
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Clean the pig, sprinkle with salt and roast at 180°C for 55 minutes per kg plus 50 minutes. Whi ... 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.