We gathered a collection of beautiful mosaics, wall paintings and frescos from the past related to the culinary culture of our ancestors. Previous episode:
Peaches. Wall painting. Ercolano, I century b.C. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Bread and figs. Wall painting. Ercolano, 79 b.C National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
A child offers food to a donkey. Byzantine Imperial Mosaic in Istanbul.
Marine scene with fish and shellfish. Copy of a Hellenistic mosaic carpet. Triclinium, House of the Faun, I century b.C. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Fresco from the , still life. Vegetables.
Still life of fish and vegetables in a chest. Mosaic, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE. From a villa at Tor Marancia.
In the past beans were the meat of the poors: beans have always had many nutritional and energetic qualities.
Splinters of Africa scattered in the Mediterranean sea
Have you ever turned into jujube liquor?
Let’s profit from this season’s veggies.
Yellow like the shiny sun that caresses its peel