WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The main Roman ingredients in dishes were wheat, wine, meat and fish, bread, and sauces and spices.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pasta all’Amatriciana is among the most famous foods of Rome, made from bucatini pasta (resembles a straw), guanciale (pork cheek), tomatoes, pecorino cheese, and fresh pepper.

Detailed explanation-3: -They ate meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, cheese, grains (also as bread) and legumes. Meat included animals like dormice (an expensive delicacy), hare, snails and boar. Smaller birds like thrushes were eaten as well as chickens and pheasants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Favourite Roman foods were fattened snails, dormice, pigeons, shellfish and game. For a typical Roman family, breakfast was a light meal of bread and fruit. The mid-day meal (prandium) was a cold snack or a light dish of fish, eggs and vegetables.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Roman colonies provided many foods to Rome; the city received ham from Belgium, oysters from Brittany, garum from Mauretania, wild game from Tunisia, silphium (laser) from Cyrenaica, flowers from Egypt, lettuce from Cappadocia, and fish from Pontus.