Podcasts Arts Food A Taste of the Past Episode 289: Tasting Ancient Rome: Recreating Ancient Recipes and What Archaeology Tells Us

Episode 289: Tasting Ancient Rome: Recreating Ancient Recipes and What Archaeology Tells Us

Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 5:29 p.m.

b'What is most commonly known about the food and dining of Ancient Rome comes from vivid\\u2014and often fictional\\u2014descriptions of exotic foods of lavish banquets of the wealthy. But further study reveals an approachable cuisine of the Mediterranean in ancient times. Farrell Monaco describes how she combines her background in archaeology to study and recreate many of those dishes.'