Chef Hilariously Tries to cook 1500 year old Roman Recipe! | Sorted Food

The boys are challenged today to use a 1500+ YEAR OLD ROMAN COOKBOOK to create an epic dish!

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[matthewfurlani]

The best mid week meal is James making a return appearance.

[manaownsmysoul]

BOYS I AM SO HAPPY YOU'VE COOKED FROM DE RE COQUINARIA!!! And yes, pinning down the author is a little squiggly, but this was almost certainly a cook book meant for professional chefs working in wealthy homes rather than normal everyday people, since your average Roman wouldn't have had access to three types of meat for one meal mostly.
Also aenus should be prononced 'EYE-noos' =)

[RolandsSh]

I am 100% convinced that this recipe was chosen from the book purely because it prominently featured words "aenus" and "lovage".
I would have chosen the same.

[ispellitjustg]

I love how Jaime's "I'll cook meat" is a combination of begging and assertive. Even the way he stared down James is saying "I will do the thing I do best and please don't make me try something new today"

[thmia]

I need you guys to do this with Max Miller 😭😭😭 That would be the best thing ever, a chef AND a history cook AND a normal, all three takes.

[dusso]

“I cooked for a queen I cooked for a Dane, last year I cooked for a prince and this year I’m cooking for the paupers.” My god Ebbers lmao.

[janhanchenmichelsen]

Many, many, many years ago, my uni professor in greek/roman history invited to at student party (we were not that many students back then) where he made a dish from a Roman recipe: Squid stuffed with a barley/veg-mix, spiced with garum and other flavours the Romans would have used (variants of this dish are of course still made today). Extremely tasty, and washed down with industrial amounts of wine. Variants of spiced, thinned down wines and some retsina. But no lead-based sweetening additions. An evening to remember! Edit: typo

[silmarian]

8:30 Interestingly, they think they’ve rediscovered silphium in Türkiye. It’s not available to get and use, but it’s pretty neat that it’s not actually extinct.

[carpediem]

The Roman era can be split into 3 to 4 segments, but 27 BCE to 1400 is wrong.
Traditionally, the Roman era is split into three, beginning with the Kingdom than the Republic and the Empire. Nowadays, many will count the Byzantine Empire as the 4th era since it was the direct continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire, and inhabitants and Emperors identified themselves as Roman.
Kingdom: 753 BCE (mythical) to 509 BCE
Republic: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
Empire: 27 BCE to 476 CE
Byzantine/ Eastern Empire: 330 CE to 1453 CE

You omitted the first two eras and with that aspects like the Punic wars or the conquests and reign of Caesar.

p.s. historians may divide these eras further, for example, the Empire into Principate and Dominate.

[mariaoberg]

If you guys aren't playing "Barry and Ben are the best of friends" as their battle theme in the battle, you're missing a golden opportunity 😃

[AbbyTheMusical]

Always happy to see James back in the kitchen.

[EdinMike]

James is back, that’s all I needed today. I’ll make dinner and go to sleep happy !

[kwoylee]

Yay! James! Hope to see more of him this year.

[rs]

Now James is back, each chef can have their own normal helper in challenges!!

[dizzygunner]

I can't believe they released a video with James in it, without even being like "JAMES IS HERE WOOOO", just like nothing was out of the ordinary...

[O___P]

Fun fact: What is likely Silphium has been rediscovered a few years ago, by a Turkish academic called Mahmut Miski. He found a patch in a small village, what might have originally been leftovers from a believed-to-be-failed experiment to farm it by the Romans. Due to the unique life cycle of the plant, they probably abandoned it without realizing it worked.

[rolfs]

Jamie grinding pepper into the mortar from the mill, instead of putting in whole peppercorns and using the mortar to crack them along with the lovage is just … peak Jamie.

[hannah]

They clearly waited for Ben to be gone for this video. The innuendos may have killed us all

[Rolandais]

Worchestershire sauce is a type of garum, aka. fish sauce, Garum became very popular in the british isles after the roman invasion and stayed popular beyond it, obviously.

[averyeml]

I really appreciate when James comes back, and that he’s been doing it often enough that it’s not like “OH MY GOD ITS JAMES?!?!?” anymore but now it’s like when you move away from your cousins but they still come and hang out for family sleepovers on holidays.