Ancient Foods Today!

Today, a variation on yesterday's farro dish, puls ! I think that this also was a very common dish in the ancient world, farro with onio...

"What did the archaic and republican Romans really eat," you ask? Well, a significant staple of their diet was a dish called puls ...

Today we look at one of the cuts from a pig that does not get normally eaten in the United States but does get eaten in Rome, both ancient R...

Today we look at a wonderful, simple snack eaten in the ancient world and commonly enjoyed today - bread and salami! Both bread and salami a...

I am in Rome staying with friends who are originally from Lucca, Daira and Giacomo. Last night we made a Luccese specialty, rabbit with oliv...

So, there have not been many posts lately, I admit. But, you know, it is that time of the semester when every time I start working on recrea...

The flowers are blooming, the weather is warmer, Spring is in the air and I want to eat fresh vegetables! Today we dip back into the cookboo...