party_pants said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

I wonder what they did before the introduction of the potato. They are an introduced crop from South America IIRC.

What about Italy before the tomato? Is there any part of Italian food they didn’t nick?!?

Well, I know the Romans had a particular style of fermented fish sauce which they used in just about every dish. Modern recreations based on ancient recipes have concluded it was “probably a bit of an acquired taste”.

Yes, garum, very popular and widespread for a long time.