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 building is situated along the west side of the Civic Forum to the north of the Temple of Apollo. An open portico, it faces on the Forum square and on the façade has eight large piers in brick which frame eight entrances. It was to house the warehouses and the grain market, but it had not yet been finished when the eruption of 79 A.D. struck. The internal walls are of rough masonry with no trace of intonaco and the roof had not yet been built. At present covered by a modern shed roof and closed by a gate, the portico is used as the storeroom for the archaeological finds. It contains a large quantity of amphoras and pottery of daily use, oil presses, capitals an ... continue

(Apic. 7, 3, 1) Ingredients:

• 6 grains pepper
• 6 grains lovage (or juniper berries)
• 1 tsp thyme
• Liquamen (3 tblsp soya sauce + 3 tsp anchovy paste)
• 3 tblsp dry wine (like dry Marsala)
• 3 tblsp oil

Instructions:
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Mesh pepper in grain, fresh thyme and lovage seed. Add Liquamen, wine and oil. Emulsionize. Pour the sauce on the liver 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.