I read the first chapter of my book. So I'd like to summarize it and share with you!
In the first chapter, I learned about Roman Culinary History, divided into 3 parts.
The first part is about its culinary in The Age of King(753-509BC)
Roman food culture In this era was highly depend on Roman soldiers. After soldiers became the leader of Rome instead of herdsman, citizens in Rome came to eat soldiers food, which was less quality than herdsman's food. In peacetime, they concentrated on agriculture, and in ear time, they ate better food to lead themselves to the trump. But soon later, since some of soldiers became to give weight on agriculture than war, conflicts between them often broke out.
The second part is The Republic era(509-7 BC)
As the agriculture developed, Roma began the war between Greece. After defeated Greece, Rome invaded around itself. Fertile farmlands like Sicily made Rome richer and richer with grain, olive trees and grape vines.
The third part is about during The Empire era(7BC-AD476)
Rome became one of the biggest metropolis in the world. Roman table used various kind of foods from wide spread its colonies. But Roman domestic production didn't grow so high because of the climate. So for the Roman farmers, irrigation system was very important. In the era, most of farmers were colonies and slaves.
Throughout reading this chapter, I learned how it was important that who ruled Rome and also, how different their food were depended on the ruler.
Last week, I went to Italian restaurant, PONTE VECCHIO, near the Aoyama Gakuin with my friend.
