Facta 2

Question 0

Meals

Answer 0

Meals - same time of day as us - breakfast (ientaculum) lunch (prandium) dinner (cena) snack (merenda) - citizens could go to a downtown lunchroom but preferred to go home sometimes with a guest

Question 1

Stores in Rome

Answer 1

Stores, shops - buy everything you need, taberna (retail shops) - officinae ( work shop) - sutrina (shoes) - taberna sutrina shoe store - officina sutrina make shoes - drug store, bookstore, fish, wig, jewelry, clothes

Question 2

Beverages

Answer 2

Favorite beverage (wine) grew lots of grapes - 80 different types - Maximus gurges old roman cook - honey, wine, ice - forerunner to ice cream traced back to chilled wines and beverages, milk -water with honey

Question 3

Pastry and pies

Answer 3

Cookies, cakes, and pastries - placenta (flat cake) libum (flour, milk, eggs, oil, honey cake) scriblita (cheesecake) marci panis (soft gingerbread) tortilis (tart) crustulum (crusty pastry) - honey is used for sweetening (no sugar) - 4 favored pies - poma (apple) anguillae (eel) artocreas (mince) carovitulina (veel meat)

Question 4

Meats and fish

Answer 4

Main course - cow, pig, goat, sheep, rabbits, snail, chicken, sardines, oyster, & other fish ( some imported) - caro, carnis - meat - piscis, piscis - fish

Question 5

Vegetables

Answer 5

Beans, peas, carrots, lettuce, rice, mallows, cucumbers, parsley, cabbage
NO TOMATOES

Question 6

Fruits

Answer 6

Salads & other uses - olives, raisins, apples, apricots, melons, cherries, oranges, bananas, pears, plums

Question 7

Dairy

Answer 7

Cheese, milk, butter, cake, 80 wines, mustard, saffron - lac (milk) caseus (cheese) oleum (oil) nux (nuts) ovum (egg)

Question 8

Snacks at the circus

Answer 8

Ate fried peas - Pisa fricta (in oleo) - circus Maximus

Question 9

Celebration cakes

Answer 9

Special cake for anniversary or special event - called mustaceum - flour kneaded with must, sometimes with laurel leaves - no elaborate wedding cake - broken above the heads of the bride and groom