[Another Roman Recipe To Delight All]

At last the "dormouse moment", or do I smell a rat?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2617388.ece

Wow, to think they'd claim they'd been serving rat!

 

Here's a Roman recipe for stuffed dormouse.

 

GLIRES

 

Lean pork

Dormouse meat trimmings

Ground black pepper

Mixed nuts

Several leaves of lacer (rocket/arugula may substitute)

A soupcon (trace) of liquamen/garum

 

Pound the mixture until it makes a rough paste suitable for forcing into your dormouse. Put the animal once stuffed in an earthen casserole dish. Boil in a pot with stock. Alternatively you can roast in the oven. (Take care not to let the ears burn!)

 

Gerbil or hamster may work, too, it says.. is there something wrong with guinea pig, though? You can't stuff much into a hamster.

[What's the last book you read?]

I always check facts with my boyfriend who knows more about Roman history than me, and he continues to be shocked at how this man "rapes roman history". My major problem is that so many interesting things happened in real history, so there shouldn't be any need to make up facts. Anyone read any of these books?

One better piece of historical fiction I've read is Alfred Duggan's Three is Company about Lepidus. I rather liked that one.

(Disclosure: I'm the boyfriend.)

 

Man, I remember your telling me about a young Caesar saddling up with Brutus to go after Mithridates, and somehow I just knew it, and you confirmed.. yep, they killed him. In two nights of guerilla attacks. With blowguns. Ok, I made up the blowguns part, but why not? He made up the rest! I regret using the word "rape", but I feel bad for that friend of yours whose only source of Roman history was this series.

 

I agree with a later poster: choosing figures about whom so much is known is the misstep. If you want to interpret, be lazy, sloppy, or just plain make s--- up, best to pick some back-bencher, not someone from history's front row. What Duggan did in writing about the second Triumvirate was to pick the dull one no one cared about and make him the star.

 

I remember reading a murder mystery set in the Flavian period when I was in high school, "The Silver Pigs". We should look for that series, since we could use some more context for that period.

[Your Hidden Roman Name]

Howdy. Here's mine: bceeilnnorrrtttu

And I'm male. Thanks!

[Welcome and Introduce Yourself Here]

Hi all, my girlfriend and I were looking around for a Roman history forum to join together, since it's something we already discuss daily. I wish I had a better memory for it -- I remember the interesting parts, but soon forget where I read what. I've been to a dig in Israel, and we really look forward to taking our first trip to Rome later this year or next year.