Weirdest Foods From Ancient Roman Cuisine Posted: March 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025 The people of ancient Rome may have lived thousands of years ago, but their diets were anything but ...

As they are with modern Romans, sauces and marinades were an essential element in ancient Roman cuisine. One of the most popular was garum, a salty, aromatic, fish-based sauce. Like so many other ...

For example, the Olympic runner Chionis of Laconia apparently also had a strict diet of figs when he was training for his ...