Ingredients

Here are listed links to information on the more obscure ingredients involved in Roman cooking.  I have tried to describe what they taste like, where you can find them, and what alternatives exist for those which are hard to find.

• Asafoetida (Silphium)
• Caroenum (Grape Syrup)
• Date Paste
• Garum/Liquamen (Fish Sauce)
• Lovage Seed
• Passum (Raisin Wine)
• Rue