If your looking for cuisine to get into the mood for Rome, I recommend:

ISICIA OMENTATA (a kind of Roman Burger)
(Apic. 2, 1, 7)

Ingredients:
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500g minced meat
1 french roll, soaked in white wine
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
50ml Liquamen (can be replaced by 1/2 tsp salt + a little white wine)
some stone-pine kernels and green peppercorns
a little Caroenum
Baking foil
Instructions:
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Mix minced meat with the soaked french roll. Ground spices and mix into the meat. Form small burgers and put pine kernels and peppercorns into them. Put them into baking foil and grill them together with Caroenum.


If that seems like to much preparation, I also highly recommend:



They may be the greatest food of all time!