/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10489820
Rice, it was a legitimate luxury in ancient Rome.

>>10489839
Tell me more. Why was it a luxury, did they import it?

>>10489820
crusty bread with herbs and oil
wine
meat and vegetable stews
honey on everything
fruit baskets served by nubile slave girls
saffron
if you can't get flamingo necks then you can use a sheep's head
sausages and halloumi
unrelated blogpost
>5th grade
>school tradition is the reading of classic greek myths
>Banquet of the Gods day
>everyone dresses up as a god/goddess/figure from roman/greek mythology and does a little presentation at an Olympus-themed banquet hall built on the auditorium stage
>roles were first come first serve, i.e. report to the history teacher early in the morning to declare which character you want to be
>edgy 11 year old so I pick Hades
>make a badass fake gem-encrusted shield made of styrofoam and painted it black and covered it with images of wealth and death because we all had to make posterboards
>Banquet Day comes
>all us 5th graders dressed as fucking Zeus and shit eating Papa John's pizza and drinking Cokes in front of 100 parents watching all of us recite mythological stories
>cute girl i liked at the time played Persephone and we had a back and forth throughout the banquet about how i kidnapped her and how miserable she is in Hades but i laugh and basically say sucks to suck, you're mine now. now gimme a pomegranate slut
sometimes i miss middle school

>>10489857
Lol that's sad i bet that's the only good memory you have and the only interaction youve ever had with a girl you fat white virgin i bet your dad raped you

>>10489857
>>Banquet of the Gods day
Sounds so awesome

>>10489851
Yeah, it came in from the silk road. It wasn't until the 15th century until they started growing domestically on the Italian peninsula.
Only rich fuckers got to eat rice, everybody else ate cracked wheat or barley.

>>10489875
haha it really was man i miss those days so much

>>10489870
fuck off.

>>10489876
Would grains other than rice be served at a fancy banquet or should it be mostly meat and swallow tongues and stuff?

>>10489887
I don't that much about Roman banquets specifically, I just read a lot about trade throughout history and rice was a hot commodity for the Romans. They found stores of Egyptian and Asiatic rice as far North as Germany because the officers and imperial administrators had it brought up.

>>10489886
you're not me faggot
>>10489870
haha yeah c-can you imagine
>>10489875
it was really fun RPing as a god of death while calling cheap chain pizza "ambrosia" while pretending to get drunk on coca cola

>>10489857
Cute-ass story brochacho. Caught a little feel there.

www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm

Have an ancient roman cookbook

>>10489820
Lots of game meat, poultry, and fish.

For the wine, the closest thing you can get to ancient wine is retsina, which I'm told is god awful, so good luck with that.

The Romans also had a form of lasagna, which was sheets of fried dough separated with goat cheese, ground meat, and an herb sauce like pesto. Could be interesting.

Plenty of food blogs out there that speculate on Roman cuisine.

>>10489952
Thank-you!

>>10489970
I'll check out retsina. Roman lasagna sounds good to me actually!

>>10489970
Retsina is good once you get the taste for it. The resin has a distinct piney taste but it's not unpleasant. The brand Malamatina is pretty mild and comes in small bottles if you're unsure about it.

Don't forget to have your guests slather each other will olive oil and then scrape it off with a stick.

>>10490100
I'll give it a look some time.

I always wanted to do a Greek drinking party ever since I read Symposium... just maybe with less twink fucking. One of these days when I have money to burn I'd love to try to do it as authentically as possible.

>>10490112
> just maybe with less twink fucking.
Amateur

>>10490123
You have never felt secondhand embarrassment until you have to sit through a lecture by a 70 year old professor talking about "eros" and "passion between a man and a boy" while he looks right at you.

>>10490123
You're right, it's what Dionysus would want.

>>10490132
If you're only going to do something once, do it right.

>>10490147
>Only fucking your eremenos once

>>10490154
By the time I'm done with them, they're not fit for a second ride.

>>10490167
Well fuck, sign me up daddy.

I'll make you dolmades after.

find book by Apicius, try those
scrambled eggs with honey sounds good
just serve lots of anchovies, fish sauce a la thai, wine, mead, and game meats. probably boar.

>>10490218
Shellfish too, especially oysters.

>>10489820
>He isn't going to serve stuffed peacock
>He isn't going to served brazed mice
>He isn't going to serve garum
>Not even going to serve blood pudding
Don't act like you're anything but a larp'ing, hipster, pleb.

>>10490238
>He isn't going to have live gladiator bouts
>He isn't going to have slave girls serving the wine
>He doesn't even wear a toga
>I heard his time as proconsul of Gaul was abysmal

>>10490253
>he doesn't eat with his hands like a filthy barbarian
>he wears pants like a filthy barbarian
>he doesn't shave like a barbarian
>he doesn't defecate next to he friends in the bathhouse
>he doesn't even have his own catamite

>>10490267
>Be me
>Teenage boy from Cantabria
>Told I could get a job in Rome as an actor
>Believe the nice man
>Go with him to his estate
>Told I would be performing tonight
>Ask what role
>Told "bottom"
>mfw
>Almost makes me want to run away and join the legion

>>10489820
Game animals. Romans loved that shit.


No beef. Beef was for the poor.

>>10489870
>virgin
>I bet your dad raped you
Not how that works, friend!

>>10491448
>tfw my gf got raped when she was 10 by some old guy her dad was friends with
>twice
>she never told anyone but me

>if it wasn't for that she'd be a virgin

T-thanks for reminding me

>>10490301
This greentext is anachronistic since being an actor in Roman society is practically synonymous with being a prostitute.

just order papa johns you worthless faggot
people will be making fun of you behind your back for months if you pull off being as much of a tryhard as you intend to

>>10491795
>she never told anyone but me
That means it was a falsification, buddy. Hell, probably a fantasy.

>>10491924
I wish

She tried to tell her dad but her dad didnt believe her since he's a piece of shit and abused her anyway. Not sexually at least. But still abuse.

I fucked her for the first time last week. No hymen. She just turned 19.

Can I come?

The closest thing we have to Garum are Worcester sauce and italian anchovy paste (The Balena brand)

Slather that on everything.

>>10489820
If you don't make roast ortolan you are merely a pleb.

Make sure to cover your eyes to make sure God doesn't see your sin.

>>10491931
I don't want to be the guy who ruins your relationship, but later in life she's going to be telling her new boyfriend stories about how you abused her and stuff. Probably will either insinuate or outright state that you're a rapist too.

Whether she's making it up or not is beside the point, any female who sees herself as a rape victim, whether legitimately or not, is damaged goods and you need to be very careful around them.

>>10491945
She doesn't see herself as a victim. She only told me because i kept asking her what she meant when she vaguely mentioned going through something.

It doesn't even seem to affect her. It affects me more than it does her, really.

I tie her up and choke her a little when we fuck, she doesn't have a problem with it at all.

She doesn't use it as a sob story or some shit. Whatever you're trying to imply.

>>10491938
Anchovy paste would be equivalent to the lowest class of Garum. Only the poorest plebs ate chunky Garum.
The closest modern equivalent would be Asian fish sauce.