De Agri Cultura - Farm Recipes

Farm Recipes

One section consists of recipes for farm products. These include:

  • an imitation of Coan wine (in which sea water was added to the must);
  • the first recorded recipe for vinum Graecum, imitating the style of strongly flavoured Greek wine that used to be imported to Roman Italy.

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