IN PERDICE (Boiled Partridge)

(Apic. 6, 3, 1) Ingredients:

• 1 partridge for each person
• Pepper
• Lovage (or celery leaves)
• Celery seeds
• Mint
• Myrtle berries (or juniper berries)
• 30 ml red wine
• 30 ml red wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Honey

Instructions:
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Cook the partridge by soaking it in low heated water for about 45 minutes. Grind the spices in a mortar, add honey, wine, vinegar, oil and liquamen. Pour the sauce on the venison and serve.

 

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Along the wide perimeter of the walls, still recognizable, opened no less than seven doors. Only of two we know the ancient denomination, but to the other has been ascribed a conventional name that express well their function and their placement in the general topography: Porta Marina Gate, Porta Ercolano Gate, Porta Vesuvio Gate, Porta di Nola Gate, Porta di Sarno Gate, Porta Nocera Gate and Porta di Stabia Gate. At the moment of the eruption the doors had lost their strategic or defensive role for let space to more wide and convenient doorway useful for commercial traffic and exaction of tribute. The eruption has crystallized them in a transformation that has never ... continue

(Apic. 8, 8, 9) Ingredients:

• 3 whole hares or wild rabbits
• Pepper
• Lovage (or chopped celery leaves)
• Oregano
• Cumin
• Celery seeds
• 100 g chicken livers
• 3 raw eggs Yolk of a hard-boiled egg
• Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 70 ml wine
• 20 ml olive oil
• 40 ml white wine vinegar
• Onion, chopped

Instructions:
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Remove the hare brains and fry along with the chiken liver, the hare liver, heart and kidneys. Chop the cooked meats together, add ... 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.