Archaeology Breakthrough: Ancient Roman Recipes Resurrected as Part of Pompeii Bake Sale: 'It's Not Pizza!'
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Nearly two thousand years after Pompeii was ravaged by the eruption of Vesuvius, the bread of ancient Rome comes back to life in the city buried in 79 A.D. This symbolic return has been seen at the first agricultural fair organized within the archaeological grounds, where researcher Farrell Monaco has presented hundreds of hoagadas rebuilt from charred breads found in the site. Bread, key to Pompeii's daily life The event has been held in one of…
Archaeology breakthrough: Ancient Roman recipes resurrected as part of Pompeii bake sale: 'It's not pizza!'
Fresh bread baked according to traditions nearly two millennia old are now being sold at the world's most renowned Roman archaeological site. Farrell Monaco, a specialist in Roman bread archaeology and food writing, brought several hundred recreated loaves to what marks the first agricultural fair ever held within ancient Pompeii.The Canadian-born British archaeologist spent a decade examining carbonised loaves in laboratory settings before emba…
Finally! A cooking challenge with archeological, historical and literary demands! And yet fine. Image: imagoFinally! A cooking challenge with archaeological, historical and literary demands! And yet fine.Scientific advice: Ana-Maria Jürgens, Giorgio Tiger BaroniPompeji – it still fascinates like hardly any other place today. As the most important of the four cities buried during the devastating eruption of Vesuvius in 79, it exudes a very own, t…
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