FABACIAE VIRIDES (Green and Baian Beans)

(Apic. 5, 6, 1) Ingredients:

• 500 g soybeans with pod, or green beans
• 50 ml Liquamen, or 1/2 tsp salt with 50ml wine
• 1-2 tblsp oil
• 1 tblsp minced coriander leaves
  (or 1/2 tblsp ground coriander seed)
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/2 minced branch of leek

Instructions:
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Cook beans with Liquamen, oil, leek and spices. Serve.

 

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This sumptuous villa was built just out-side the Porta Ercolano gate in sight of the town walls. An entrance on Via dei Sepolcri led straight into the 14-column peristyle around which the various rooms and living quarters of the house were situated. The house’s bath area was situated in a triangular space between the road and the peristyle while the triclinium/living room opposite commanded a view over the Gulf of Naples and the large garden below. In the centre of the garden was an open-air triclinium with a swimming pool surrounded by a covered gallery (cryptoporticus). Here the master of the house, with his ‘treasure’ of 1356 sesterces, and other 18 people, mainl ... continue

(Apic. 6, 8, 14) Ingredients:

• 1 fresh chicken (1–1.5kg)
• 300 g minced meat (half beef, half pork)
• 100 g finely-ground oats
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml white wine
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp lovage
• ¼ tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp ground pepper
• 1 tsp green peppercorns
• 50 g pine kernels
• Liquamen (to taste)

Instructions:
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Spread the oats on a baking tray and cook in 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.