Ancient Roman Cuisine

A collection of redacted recipes, many of them based on Apicius.

A sample menu (with recipes) that can be made at home easily and inexpensively.

Recipes for mulsam, vin blanc, conditum paradoxum, and amygdala et malum.

Most, if not all, spices have existed from time immemorial . But that does not mean that everyone, in all times, used or had available all spices. Each culture and era has its own specific selection of spices, or "Spice Chest" .

Curren tly includes: a late Roman spice Chest; a Norse spice chest; a medieval and renaissanc e German spice chest; a Russian spice chest; and constructi ng your own personal spice chest.