PORCELLUM FLACCIANUM (Suckling Pig)

(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. While the pig is cooking grind the herbs and spices together in a pestle and mortar. Add the asafoetida essence and the Liquamen to this, mixing it in well. Then blend in the wine and the passum. Place this sauce in a pan and bring to the boil. Thicken with two teaspoons of cornflour mixed with a little water. Add the juices from the pig to this sauce, bring back to the boil and simmer until thickened. Pour the sauce over the pig and sprinkle with ground celery seeds before serving.

 

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(Apic. 7, 13, 4) Ingredients:

• 4 lbs. mushrooms
• 1 bunch of coriander
• 4 cups of caroenum (red wine, simmered until reduced by about 1/2 cup)

Instructions:
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Wash mushrooms and coriander. Halve mushrooms unless they're small. Place mushrooms and coriander in reduced wine and simmer 10 minutes. Remove coriander. Let cool and put away in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours.

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.