ROMAN ROAD TRIP

While in Europe you should go to the British Museum because they have two floors of Roman and Greek artifacts such as fragments of buildings on display like parts of the Corinthian and Composite orders in particular. In room 69 they take a cross culture look at the public and private lives of the ancient Greeks and Romans. They have objects on display that have been choose to illistrate the themes such as women, children, household furniture, war, athletics, religion, and many more. The objects in room 70 show the rise of Rome frrom a small city to an imperial capital that controlled the Mediterranean basin and north-western Europe. The exabition covers about 1,000 years of romes legacy from when Constantine founded his new christian capital at constantinople(Istanbol now). In this Museum they also have Roman portraits and sculptures. Check this museum out at http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/departments/greek_and_roman_antiquities/galleries.aspx
here is some recipes i found on a website ISICIA OMENTATA (a kind of Roman Burgers)
(Apic. 2, 1, 7)
Ingredients:
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500g minced meat
1 french roll, soaked in white wine
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
50ml Liquamen (can be replaced by 1/2 tsp salt + a little white wine)
some stone-pine kernels and green peppercorns
a little Caroenum
Baking foil
Instructions:
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Mix minced meat with the soaked french roll. Ground spices and mix into
the meat. Form small burgers and put pine kernels and peppercorns into
them. Put them into baking foil and grill them together with Caroenum.
this is another recipe DULCIA DOMESTICA (Housemade Dessert)
(Apic. 7, 13, 1)
Ingredients:
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200g fresh or dried dates
50g coarsely ground nuts or stone-pine kernels
a little bit salt
honey, or red wine with honey (to stew)
Instructions:
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Take the stones out of the dates and fill them with nuts or stone-pine
kernels. Sprinkle a bit of salt on the filled dates and stew them in
honey or honey-sweetened red wine. The dates have to be cooked in on
low heat until their paring starts to come off (approximately 5-10
minutes).
Note:
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You may also fill some dates with ground pepper. (I wonder how this
might taste - but that's a suggestion made in the original recipe.)
For agrigulture i go back to the museum or maybe not. At About.com:Travel italy they show the top ten ancient Roman sites to visit. Here they are.
1. The Colosseum of Rome
2. The Pantheon
3. Roman Forum
4. The Capitoline Hill
5. Piazza Navona
6. The Palatine Hill
7. Baths of Diocletian
8. Baths of Caracalla
9. Trajan's Market
10. Via Appia Antica and Catacombs
I hope you enjoy Mr.G. =)

BRITISH MUSEUM!

THE PANTHEON!