while poorer attendees brought coarse barley bread or purchased it from stalls outside the arena. Pastries sweetened with honey appear in Roman recipes and inscriptions. Their ingredients included ...

Garlic bread, when done correctly, is one of life’s finest, simplest pleasures, up there with a salt and pepper roast chicken and a perfect salad with lemon. It’s basic and should not be ...

Every month, 200,000 Roman citizens were given a free ration of corn from the state - around 40 kilos. This was enough to make bread for two people for about a month. Many of these citizens didn't ...