CONCHICLA COMMODIANA (Peas Commodian style)

(Apic. 5, 4, 4) Ingredients:

• 250 g dry peas
• Ground pepper
• 1 tblsp lovage
• 1 tblsp dill
• 2 fresh scallion (or 1/2 onion)
• Liquamen (or soya sauce or broth)
• 4 tblsp red wine (like dry Marsala)
• 4 eggs

Instructions:
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Put the dry peas in water all night long and rinse it repeatedly. Then cook it until skimmed. Mesh pepper, lovage, dill, scallion moistened with Liquamen; add wine and Liquamen to taste: stir in a sauce pan with the peas to combine; beat 4 eggs, and combine them with the peas, place on the fire to thicken avoiding ebullition and serve.

 

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This is the only building in Pompeii which was originally built as a laundry and fuller’s workshop; the three other establishments of this kind were restructured residential buildings. The fuller’s workshop provided services to numerous clothiers, wool makers and tailors working in the town. According to the electoral slogans painted on the façade (“the united fullers recommend… Stephanus recommends’), the establishment has been attributed to a certain Stephanus. A press used to fold cloth was placed against the left wall of the large entrance hall. Past the entrance hall, we enter an atrium with a flat roof which served as a terrace to hang out the washing. Finer c ... continue

(Apic. 10, 1 ,12) Ingredients:

• 1.5 kg red mullet
• Rue
• Mint
• Coriander
• Fennel
• Lovage (or celery leaves)
• Honey
• Olive oil
• Liquamen (or white wine)
• Ground black pepper

Instructions:
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Create a parcel using greaseproof paper by folding a sheet in half and repeatedly folding the sides to seal. Put the fish inside; add the olive oil, salt, pepper, Liquamen. Close the top of the parcel and bake for 30–40 minutes at 170°C until cooked. Finely chop the herbs and combine with ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.