I have a question, I do not know how to make cheese. What are some good types to present for a food presentation or for a good outing? I have also have read...
A new ALBUM: Clibanus of Legio IX Hispana Pictures from Old Fort Mac Arthur Days 2008, July 12-13 The first time we built a barrel vault Worked spectacularly ...
Anyone on this list have practical re-creation information and/or references for how the Romans would have made wine? I am trying something out but would like...
If you read German, there is a book by Karl-Wilhelm Weeber dedicated to the subject of Roman wine. He goes into the processes and results in great detail. Some...
from my memories of my Vendemmie in Umbria, basic wine making has remained about the same, if one excludes the sea water or hellebore of Cato or the modern...
This might provide some additional background info. In the harvesting of grapes for wine during Roman times the basic kind of wine was determined to a...
Okay...so this thing isn't a solid item hauled around?! Mud huh....I am thinking about building one that's why I asked. I know if you use normal cement it...
SALVETE Correus' comment that he might like to build his own oven suggested I drop a line with these bits for his benefit and any others who might now or in...
Mud works very well - that's why cultures all over the worl use it. It requires a minimum of upkeep - while discussing the hornos (bread ovens) at Taos pueblo...
My humble self thinks that it was the same general idea as for "food processor". If the thing does not exist, the word does not exist. However, there were...
So true.... ... From: Armand Marechal <armand@...> Subject: Re: [Apicius] The Potato To: Apicius@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:48...
Nope...it's the name of something.... ... From: jdm314 <jdm314@...> Subject: [Apicius] Re: Noble Pig To: Apicius@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, August 18,...
... Grain, mainly wheat. Potatoes and grains are starchy foods and by nature 'sitos' rather than 'opson'. Where we have potato chips and crisps, the Romans had...
Salvete! ... While I have no answer for this at the moment ... I do have questions :-) [1] cost / availability - "potato" as "comparatively inexpensive and ...
I don't think Correus wants the Latin word for potato (a notoriously involved issue even among neo-Latinists), but a sort of conceptual equivalent. For which...
mmmmm Making me hungry ... From: Volker Bach <carlton_bach@...> Subject: Re: [Apicius] The Potato To: Apicius@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, August 18,...
I think you are correct.... Let me ask you this..... One of my favorite dishes is roasted chicken with carrots and potatoes (in that clay pot boar). In...