Daily+Life+-+Diet

=**Diet Of Rome**=


 * Wealthy citizens diet** :The wealthy citizens of Rome ate a variety of delicious foods. Their first meal of the day was breakfast in which they ate early. It was a very simple meal that consisted of bread and cheese. Their lunch was eaten around noon or later. They ate chicken, eggs, sausages, fried fish and salads. Their dinner, was their most important meal of the day. They ate fine chicken and vegetables. They would serve expensive wine for their drinks. During their meal they would take a trip to the toilet where they would vomit so they had room for dessert. Their desserts were grapes, figs, plums, apples, and honey comb from a beehive. Back then they did not know about sugar so they used honey to make food sweet.


 * Lower class citizens diet:** The lower class citizens of Rome did not have a fancy dinner like the higher class, they had very simple foods. The farmers of Rome ate little bowls of thin barley which was served with bread or cheese. They also ate rye, oats and various of wheat in which they grew on their farmland. The slaves of Rome got hungry most of the time because of their shortage of food. They ate gruel and water or they would drink cheap, sour wine. The soldiers of Rome usually got fed bread and a weak wine called ‘acetum” when they were at work. When they were not at work they ate garden vegetables, fruits, soup, meat and fish.


 * Foods grown in Rome:** Many of the foods that Romans ate were grown in Rome. Wealthy people grew fruit trees and herbs in their gardens. Beans, peas, lentils, and root vegetables like turnips, carrots, green vegetables, broccoli, celery and leeks were grown in the countryside.


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Animals eaten in Rome:** The Romans ate a lot of meat. The animals that they ate were cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, pigeons, and geese. Pork and mutton were recognized meats. The more meat they ate, the more rich they looked.


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 * Kitchens of Rome:** The way Romans cook, is actually quite similar to how we do today. If they were a higher class citizens they had a proper kitchen. They could also get a maid to do all their cooking for them, which gave the family many choices of foods. They would always want lots of different flavors in their food. The spices they used were coriander, oregano, fennel, mint, thyme, sage, nutmeg, caradamom, camin, pepper and ginger. If the maid was good at cooking she would be recommended to others in the town. They used lots of pans to cook their foods which were made mostly out of clay. An amphorae was a tall jar that they kept wine or olive oil in . They would cook their food over fires but then it became illegal by the empire. For the lower class people they would have to get takeaway but if they had a lot of money they could get a proper kitchen.

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