Songbirds were a favorite dish in the Ancient World, and some folks still eat birds even today. Pigeons, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and all manner of wild game birds, hunting season permitting.
It’s not only birds — we’ve always eaten things we find around the planet, and in ancient times, that went double.
Importing food and spices from faraway places created a demand for what is today called the gourmet food market, which includes spices, herbs, and very expensive olive oil and vinegar for the upwardly mobile yuppie of today.
We can today live and work in Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and even our home base, Planet Ten, all accessed by way of the 8th Dimension.
So how about joining me in reading the menu for a festival dinner with a middle-class Roman family? The feast is already in the oven. Here’s the menu for ancient Rome today: