The Roman Museum With a Taste for Historical Cookbooks

Photo: Pages with etchings from 16th-century cookery books. Courtesy of www.museodellacucina.com. Article by Eric Millman. Atlas Obscura – March 9, 2022.

A former pâtissier’s culinary collection is now available to the public.

Rome’s Circus Maximus, once the largest stadium in history, is now a massive green space: nondescript enough for dogs to defecate on, yet far too important to bulldoze. The city is stuffed with such examples of well-preserved but long-disused monuments that Romans have proudly built to uphold their culture and civilization as the world’s apex. […]

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