SARDA ITA FIT (Tuna)

(Apic. 9, 10, 2) Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked tuna fillet
• 1/2 tsp ground pepper
• 1/2 tsp privet
• 1/2 tsp thyme
• 1/2 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp rue
• 150 g dates (without stones)
• 1 tblsp honey
• 4 hard boiled eggs (in quarters)
• 50 ml white wine
• 2 tblsp wine vinegar
• 50 ml Defritum (or cooked wine)
• 2-3 tblsp green olive oil

Instructions:
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Cook tuna fillet. Mesh fillet together with dates, honey, wine, vinegar, Defritum (or cooked wine) and oil. Put all into a bowl and garnish with egg quarters. Serve.

 

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A painting in the entrance, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Jupiter and Leda, gives the house its name. This is one of the rare examples in Pompeii of a house with a Corinthian atrium, where the atrium with a central impluvium is surrounded by columns, in this case twelve columns in tufo (the other two alternatives were the Tuscan atrium without columns and the tetrastyle atrium with four columns at the corners of the impluvium). Wall paintings with pictures of mythological subjects were frescoed on the walls of the rooms on either side of the tablinum. Most of them have been detached and are now in the Archaeo ... continue

• 800 g – 1 kg veal
• 2 tblsp honey
• 2 tblsp vinegar
• 100 ml oil
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 100 ml white wine + 1 tsp salt)
• Pepper
• Privet
• Cumin
• Celery seeds to taste
• a little bit of cornstarch

Instructions:
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Cook the veal for about 1 1/2 hour until well done. Mix together honey, vinegar, oil, liquamen and spices in an extra pan. Boil the sauce only shortly and thicken it with cornstarch. Then pour sauce over the veal and let boil on low heat for another 10 minutes. ... 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.