Classics: Rome - Roman Food and dinner parties

Frage	Antworten
A peasants dinner - Metamorphoses	-Cabbage -smoky pork -meat -green and black olives -cornel-berries -wine -endive and radishes -cheese -eggs -nuts and figs -dates -plums -sweet-smelling apples -purple grapes -honeycombs
A modest dinner - From Martial 'Epigrams'	-Cappadocian lettuce -strong leaks -Tuna fish -Sliced egg -Green cabbage -Small sausage -White grits -pale beans -red bacon -shrivelled grapes -Syrian pears -Neapolitan chestnuts -wine -olives -lupines -hot chickpeas
A fancy Dinner - Martial 'Epigrams'	-lettuce -tender shoots cut from leek plants -pickled young tuna -eggs -rue leaves -cheese from Velabrum street -olives -fish oysters -sow's udder -stuffed wild fowl -barnyard hens
Rules for a posh dinner party - who would the paterfamilias invite?	clients and business associates to a dinner party.
What would the guest of honour do?	lie on a couch nest to the paterfamilias
what might a wealthy family invite the guests to do?	Guests could be invited into their private bath house between courses
What did slaves do?	deliver many courses
what would impress guests?	food from exotic locations and food that was difficult to prepare.
What might entertainment include?	Poets, men telling jokes, dancing girls, musicians and gladiator fights
what does ena mean?	a roman dinner party

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