Roman Foods presented to the 1st Corinthians Class

This week were studying 1st Corinthians 8,10 which deals with food. Elizabeth Heimbach offered to do an informal talk on Roman Foods.

Elizabeth studied Roman settlements (and food) in England in Hadrian’s Wall, Chichester and then in Italy in Pompei. Roman foods did without the new world foods – corn, potato, tomato, bell pepper, chili pepper, vanilla, tobacco, beans, pumpkin, cassava root, avocado, peanut, pecank, etc. They had pizza but without the tomatoes! They ate what ever was around such as wild game, spices, and green vegetables such as zucchini. Dental records show they were surprisingly healthy since they did not have refined sugar. These are 4 excerpts of her longer talk.

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