This feast served some pretty interesting dishes, even by Roman standards (they ate peacocks). I know this is the point of the satire, but I didn't even know what some of this was.
There was, of course, my old friend garum in there. I don' know why, but garum just...ew! Fermened fish guts and small fish...I actually have threatened to feed my cat garum as punishment...because I think it sounds that bad. Ironically, garum may be the ancestor of Worschestire sauce, so I learned in Roman Civ.
My favorite bird
My least-favorite condiment
No clue about "skirwort." And I'm not sure that we should knock garum until we try it. Fermentation produces many wonderful things . . .
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