The Cold Table: Imperium Romanum on Roman Food

Friday, June 16, 2023

Imperium Romanum on Roman Food

Those of my readers here who also follow my historic costume blog, Loose Threads: Yet Another Costuming Blog, will be aware that I have found a new YouTube channel, Imperium Romanum, which has ambitious plans for a series of videos on Roman material culture and history.

The embedded video below is a short, but very good, summary of the underpinning of Roman food. (Hint: It starts with wheat and barley, originally eaten as porridge). Better still, the Imperium Romanum videos are gorgeously produced, full of historically clad reenactors and images of historical food. I commend it to your attention, and am looking forward to seeing more of their work on YouTube in the future.

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Welcome to "The Cold Table" (formerly called "Table Scraps" and, less recently, "Food Through Time")! This is a blog about the history of food worldwide. It's about the origins of foodstuffs; recreating period foods, cooking techniques, and cooking utensils; historic ideas about food and nutrition; eating customs; and tableware. I will also do reviews of books discussing any of the above topics. I hope you enjoy this blog, and find it worth reading and commenting upon.

Because we are also part of history, modern food and cuisine are part of the story, and fair topics for this blog (though my preferred area of interest is historic food, particularly food before 1600 CE). Non-food issues are off-topic, and I reserve the right to remove off-topic comments without notice.