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PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR FOR WHEELCHAIR CONFINED VISITORS TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF NAPLES (POMPEII MUSEUM)
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
Some of the excellent bread for which the area around Vesuvius was renowned was made in this bakery on Via dell’Abbondanza, opposite the House of Trebius Valens. As the building did not include a shop, the bread produced was evidently sold elsewhere. This was one of the thirty-one bakeries and cake shop in the town and the name its reputed owner, Sotericus, appears on the front of the inn next-door. The large workshop where bread was made extended across two older buildings and was equipped with shelves, worktops and a dough kneading machine. The workshop also had an oven, a grain warehouse, a bedroom for the workers and four different-size machines driven by donkey ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 8, 1, 1) Ingredients:
- Boar meat
- Cumin
- Salt
- Groun pepper
- 2 tbsp honey
- Liquamen (or salt to taste)
- 200 ml caroenum (reduce 500 ml wine to 200 ml)
- 100 ml passum (or dessert wine)
Instructions:
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Remove the bristles and skin of the boar, then scatter over it plenty of sea salt, crushed pepper and coarsely ground roasted cumin. Leave it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days, turning it occasionally.
Wild boar can be dry, so wrap it in slices of bacon before you roast it. Then put it into th ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
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.