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Poor Romans ate mostly cereal grains at all meals: bread or a porrige called puls.
pasta
the rich Romans used to eat fish, nuts, fruits and drank honeyed wine
food
During the morning a roman would usually eat fruits, and bread they may also drink water but more likely wine as although the romans had developed the cleanest and safest way of transporting safe water to towns for romans to drink, it was still often dangerous. of a lunch or a dinner, depending on the wealth of the family, romans would have a much larger meal. for the richer communit, their slaves or 'coquus', the cook of the household would prepare a meal with items which seem exotic to us such as peacock, and stuffed doormous. they did of course eat alot of egg, meat, if near a harbour, fish, oysters. mainly though for a rich family, fruit and bread, eggs and meat were the most consistent within their diets. poorer families, if they could would eat bread, grain and meat.
For the same reasons we do: for fun, celebrations, social networking.
Dinner, or the main meal of the day was called "cena" (in Latin) by the Romans.
The aristocracy and the rich organised lavish dinner parties at their houses. The poor were too poor for this. The Romans organised several religious festivals which included chariot races, feasts and many other forms of entertainment. This were, in a sense, the parties of the masses.
what was the ancient roams food
Prandium was eaten at 11 a.m. and was more like a snack. it usually consisted of leftover from the prodigious dinner (cena) or meat and bread. Dinner was the important meal and rich people threw lavish dinner parties.
meat,garum (which is scorse)
dormice ,wine veg inciding olives!
In ancient Rome dinner was the main meal. Breakfast and lunch were usually snacks.
Indeed, there is a phobia of attending dinner parties or hosting them.The fear of attending or hosting dinner parties is called Deipnophobia.
The ientaculum was/is the Latin for breakfast. The ancient Romans generally had a light snack type breakfast which may have been a bread chunk dipped in oil or honey and a drink of juice or posca. However if they had been hosting or a guest at a dinner the night before, they would eat leftovers from the dinner. It was perfectly acceptable for guests to bring large napkins to a dinner and take "a little something" home with them.
Yes, there is such thing as a phobia of dinner parties or meal get-togethers.This phobia is called Deipnophobia.
Dying and Dinner Parties - 2012 was released on: USA: October 2012