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Tag Archives: garum
Sort of Sunday Supper…. sort of… and a fun blog suggestion
You may remember that I have posted about cooking some ancient and medieval dishes.
Today I discovered a blog dedicate to ancient cooking with a delightful name: Pass The Garum.
Garum, of course, is the ancient equivalent of ketchup. It is the … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z's Kitchen, Linking Back, O'Brian Tags
Tagged Apicius, colatura, cooking, garum, Patrick O'Brian
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Sunday Supper 5 – What happened!
I said that for this Sunday’s supper I would make a broccoli dish from Apicius’ 2nd century and indeed I did. I would do it differently next time (since the recipe was pretty sketchy). for some hints about … Continue reading
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Tagged Apicius, Dies Domini, garum, Julia Child, Sunday Supper, supper
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GARUM! GARUM! GARUM!
Did I mention garum?
Buy your garum using amazon (when available)!
From rogueclassicism comes this about that precious liquid garum, in modern terms colatura. (Check here and here.)
Garum Festival
Are Classicists aware of this event in Tunisia?
The Garum summer festival was held … Continue reading
Of rotted fish juice lunch and of gardens and of feeders
I want to thank EC of NY for lunch today. EC of NY sent some garum… yes… garum. I have written about garum several times (check here and here.), but most recently in the form of colatura, a super concentrated … Continue reading
Colatura. COLATURA! CO-LA-TU-RA!
You know the KISS protocol, right?
Sometimes the simple is the best solution.
That was my approach to lunch today.
One of you readers sent me some colatura di alici.
I had never had it before. I am now very grateful.
Oh my! Is this … Continue reading
More on garum
The Cranky Professor has a good post tying into our investigation of an ancient Roman recipe.
He deals with the dating of the Vesuvius eruption and.. garum!
mmmmm…. garummmmm
Garum, made from fermenting fish in saltwater, was basically the ketchup of the ancient … Continue reading
Garum!
A biretta tip goes to Rogue Classicism o{]:¬) who alerted me to a yummy article in Business Standard about ancient garum, the fermented fish sauce which was the ketchup of the ancient world.
Ancient ketchup
DIET/ The Romans loved their fish sauce, … Continue reading


























