Food

Jessica C- History Project Food and Cuisine was always important to the people of Rome and Italy. Romans and Italians always loved to sit down, eat quality food, and enjoy themselves. Just like us there was always a breakfast, lunch and dinner. For merchants and poorer people they didn’t always have breakfasts. ( http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romanfood/p/RomanMeals.htm ) Poor people didn’t have breakfast because they could not always afford it unlike the richer people. For breakfast there was usually salted bread or many other different types of bread like fig or olive bread. (Cooking in Ancient Civilizations page 1) They also had with every meal milk or wine, and wine usual for the rich social class. They also had for breakfast dried fruits, eggs, and many different types of cheese from goats or cows. ( http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romanfood/p/RomanMeals.htm ) Now for lunch was usually eaten around 11 am because of the extremely early breakfast. ( http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romanfood/p/RomanMeals.htm ) Now lunch was also usually a smaller meal that was quick. They didn’t cook anything for lunch but took leftovers from yesterday’s dinner. It was always a cold mean with cold meat, many types of breads, olives, cheeses, fruits and nuts. They also liked to make many different types of salads from vegetable and olives. Since it was always a challenge to keep and good and steady food supply breakfast was sometimes left out and lunch was small, quick, and always had left over from the previous meals. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Rome and Athens). (Cooking in Ancient Civilizations).Now dinner in the Roman republic was the largest and most extravagant meal in the day. Dinner was usually with entertainment, drinking, and just simply having a good time. Now at the time of the Roman republic vegetable and foods like tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate, peppers, and vanilla where not known. (Kaufman. (Cooking in Ancient Civilizations.) Barley and wheat based food where the major types of food and where included in every meal including dinner. Men, women and children always attended but children sometimes waited for their parents to finish dinner first. Woman where not allowed to drink and sometimes if the husband found she had been drinking she could be beaten. ( http://www.crystalinks.com/romefood.html ) Now for dinner they would usually cook many types of meats, vegetables, lots and lots of salads, and fruits. They enjoy drinking beer and wine while watching dancing or fights. Also their foods heavily depended on milk and lots of meat. (Cooking in Ancient Civilizations). Men would sit on couches and enjoy large dinners for many hours. Also In the roman times there where no forks or utensils, so they always ate with their hands during meals. ( http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romanfood/p/RomanMeals.htm .) So from breakfast to dinner food in the roman republic was hard to supply but always very good. With foods from olives to meat food was always very important in the roman republic and is still very important in the culture of Italy today. __Internet Sources-__ __Book Sources-__ __Picture Sources__ http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0707/0000/0134/100_8279_mid.jpg http://www.kellistanley.com/Assets/Roman-oven-web.jpg
 * __Bibliography__**
 * http://www.crystalinks.com/romefood.html
 * http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romanfood/p/RomanMeals.htm
 * Connolly Peter and Dodge Hazel. __The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome__. Oxford University Press, 1998
 * Kaufman Cathy K. __Cooking in Ancient Civilizations__. Greenwood Press, 2006