Food

The Romans used to give great importance to gastronomy and good food.
It was a consequence of their increasing richness: the ancient Romans were satisfied with eating turnips, but their descendants were among the most gluttonous of humanman kind.
Their banquets were the real society-rites of the time, they took place in the evenings and were called "cenae", while at midday the Romans had quick snacks.
They started with hors-d'oeuvres (gustus, gustatio), tasty dishes where eggs were always present and drunk the "mulsum", wine mixed with honey; then the real dinner, with several courses and watered wine, and ended with the dessert, or as the Romans called it - the secundae mensae- based on spicy food to stimulate the thirst. Toasts abounded.