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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

(Apic. 4, 2, 36) Ingredients:

• 1 kg. nettles
• 11 gr. pepper
• 8 tbsp di liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 9 tbsp olive oil
• 8 eggs

Instructions:
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Wash, drain, dry and mince the nettle. Grind the peppercorns with a pestle and add a tbsp of liquamen; then put all in a pot with oil and liquamen and boil. Make cold and add beaten eggs; mesh. Cook in a bain-marie in oven 130° for 75-80 minutes. Sprinkle with pepper and serve, hot or cold.

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.