TYROPATINAM (A Kind of Soufflee)

(Apic. 7, 13, 7) Ingredients:

• 500 ml milk
• 6 eggs
• 3 tblsp honey
• a little bit of ground pepper

Instructions:
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Sweeten milk with honey, add eggs and mix together until smooth. Cook
on low heat until stiff, sprinkle pepper on it and serve.

 

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The Forum is a great rectangular square (38 metres of width and 142 metres of lenght) originally paved with tufa; after the earthquake of 62 BC the paving was remade of travertine. A portico in double order, the lower one Doric and the upper one Ionic, surrounded the Forum on three sides, except the northern side. The square was a pedestrian precinct with the service streets blocked through special rocks. The Forum was the political, economic, commercial, religious center of the city. On the southern side of the portico some monumental bases of imperial honorary statues are visible, while along the porticoes there are some statues of nobles citizens. Public, religious ... continue

(Apic. 8, 6, 2) Ingredients:

• 10 lamb cutlets
• 1 l white wine
• 100 ml oil
• 2 big onions, diced
• 2 tblsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground pepper
• 1 tblsp privet
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 200 ml Liquamen (or 2 tsp salt)
• Starch

Instructions:
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Put cutlets into pot, together with diced onion and spices. Add Liquamen, oil and wine. Cook 45-60 minutes. Pour sauce into a pan and thicken it with starch. Serve cutlets together with the sauce.

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.