MEALS IN POMPEII
With the amazing chance to live as a Roman you are also able to dine like true Pompeiian citizen. You will experience the three main meals of a citizen, Ientaculum (breakfast), Prandium (lunch) and finally Cena (dinner).
Iemtaculum would begin with a glass of water and then as you drank you would begin eating. You would dine on dinner leftovers such as olives, honey, cheese and bread. You may also choose to dunk bread in sweetened wine or eat it with oil, vinegar and salt. A final option is to eat bread with figs. Children would have dined on bread and milk.
Prandium would have been a type of second breakfast and would have been very small. This is so that they can spend the majority of the day on that day’s business. You have a large choice of cuisine and you could have bought anything from the local venders (hot or fresh). This could have been drunk with mulsum with is wine mixed with honey.
The main meal is the cena and is the time to socialise, relax and enjoy yourself. It would begin at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and in some cases continue until morning. For Cena the cook would make a large array of dishes in which you can enjoy and consume whilst relaxing on a lavish couch called a triclinium. This meal may include cheese, bread, fresh fruit, dry fruit, lard, legumes, meat and bread. For cena you may invite friends over, in this case the meal would no longer be called Cena but Convivium. This meal would then consist of Gustum (starters), Caput Cenae (main meal) and Mensa secunda (dessert).
Iemtaculum would begin with a glass of water and then as you drank you would begin eating. You would dine on dinner leftovers such as olives, honey, cheese and bread. You may also choose to dunk bread in sweetened wine or eat it with oil, vinegar and salt. A final option is to eat bread with figs. Children would have dined on bread and milk.
Prandium would have been a type of second breakfast and would have been very small. This is so that they can spend the majority of the day on that day’s business. You have a large choice of cuisine and you could have bought anything from the local venders (hot or fresh). This could have been drunk with mulsum with is wine mixed with honey.
The main meal is the cena and is the time to socialise, relax and enjoy yourself. It would begin at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and in some cases continue until morning. For Cena the cook would make a large array of dishes in which you can enjoy and consume whilst relaxing on a lavish couch called a triclinium. This meal may include cheese, bread, fresh fruit, dry fruit, lard, legumes, meat and bread. For cena you may invite friends over, in this case the meal would no longer be called Cena but Convivium. This meal would then consist of Gustum (starters), Caput Cenae (main meal) and Mensa secunda (dessert).