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1. Animal Domestication and Diet During the Roman Empire By:KrystinaMucha Session 1 : 2010

2. What to Expect Domesticated Animals Non-Domesticated Animals Exotic Animals Poor Roman Diet Wealthy Roman Diet Manners and Customs

3. Domesticated Animals Sheep Lamb Goats Pigs Suckling Pigs Boars Cows Chickens, Ducks and Geese

4. Non-Domesticated Animals Birds and Eggs Songbirds Quail Eggs Fish Garum Fish Sauce (Worchester Sauce)

5. Exotic Animals Veal and Venison Hare Wild Goat and Kid Porpoise Bream, Hake, Mackerel, Mullet, Oysters, Sole Partridge, Thrush, Turtle dove Crane, Flamingo and Ostrich !

6. Poor Roman Diet Very poor Romansdidn’t have cooking facilities. They had to eat cold food, or else buy hot food in the streets. Poor Romans probably ate bread, beans, lentils and a little meat; some people ate just porridge made from bread boiled in water

7. Wealthy Roman Diet Huge quantities of obscenely elaborate foods. They had a reputation of making themselves sick to make room for more food than they could actually digest. However, not every dinner was a feast. A typical meal might be of vegetables, sausage in semolina, bacon and beans. The meal was held in the triclinium, an upstairs room furnished with couches where people reclined to eat.

8. Wealthy Roman Diet Cont. Jentaculum (Breakfast) bread dipped into a dish of wine, or with some cheese, with dried fruit, or honey. Prandium (Lunch) It was usually a light meal Often leftovers Cena(Dinner) Starting early, it could last for hours 3 main courses Starter, Main, Dessert

9. Roman Dinner Parties In Pompeii, a host wrote the rules on the wall: ‘Be friendly and don’t quarrel. If you can’t, go home.’ A good host would provide live entertainment by hiring performers - singers, dancing girls or comedians. Rather than sit, the Roman dinner guest reclined on his left elbow, picking the food off the table with his fingers.

10. Drinking Wine was watered down, because it was considered vulgar to drink it neat It was polite to belch People would drink too much and misbehave. Drinking on an empty stomach was considered alcoholism