From the egg to the apples
simple breakfast bread honey cheese dates, dried fruit olives
simple lunch bread fruits & veggies leftovers
dinner For most folks: Wheat porridge For the wealthy…
atrium atrium triclinium triclinium tres lecti tres lecti tres homines per lectum tres homines per lectum lectus mensa
eat while reclining eat while reclining reach with right hand reach with right hand use only 3 fingers use only 3 fingers belch frequently belch frequently
Used when you frequently wash your hands Carry home leftovers!
Gustatio “Appetizers” eggs veggies, olives shellfish mulsum=honey & wine
Prima Mensa “Main Course” meat pork poultry fish usually not beef
to the household gods Lares
Secunda Mensa “Desserts” honey-cakes fruits
Comissatio “Drinking party” perfume & flower petals in wine entertainment music story-telling poetry acrobats Roll the dice and choose the Rex Bibendi!
Bacchus
common beverage watered down finest=Falernian BEER? That’s for barbarians!
dormice!
peacock… tongues!
Rotten fish gut sauce! garum factory
Apicius’ cookbook 1 st century A.D.
Petronius’ “Satyricon” Petronius’ “Satyricon” “Cena Trimalchionis” “Cena Trimalchionis” The Dinner Party of Trimalchio The Dinner Party of Trimalchio
1. ientaculum 2. prandium 3. cena: gustatio 4. cena: prima mensa 5. cena: secunda mensa