At dawn, for breakfast, you consume bread and cheese or vegetables and what was advanced from the previous evening. It was mid-day snack, often consumed in taverns of the era: the meal was based on buns, fried fish, sausages and even sweets and fruit.
By 4 p.m., triclini, dining rooms, they consumed dinner from appetizers made from eggs and olives are passed to bring stuffed meat and fish, up to sweets and fruit.
Each consisted of three beds triclinio willing to ' U ', on each of which took place three guests, who ate lying down leaning on the left elbow. The place reserved for the guest of honor was generally the one on the far left in the Central bed, while the landlord was put to the side, on the left.
The suppers were enlivened by readings and recitations, singers, musicians and dancers.
After dinner drinking followed in a clean tricliniium.
The meal consisted of glassware, pitchers, bowls and glasses. Normally you ate with your hands; There were no forks, but have been found spoons and knives. For this they were served to Diners of bowls with water to wash the hands.
Among the special and expensive dishes was the Garum in Pompeii that was produced and exported.
It is a fish brine left to ferment in the Sun. Preserved under salt was often mixed with wine, vinegar or herbs, and was used to season many dishes.
Wine was the most popular drink, both white and red. Was cut with water and flavoured with honey, spices, herbs. A drink was the economic, consisting of vinegar diluted in water.
The ' bakery ' was perhaps no Popidius Priscus, who lived in the House next door, at no. 20, and ran through a liberto. Typical of well identified at Pompeii 34 bakeries are the wood-fired oven, similar to a current, and le macine (here are four, plus a small), lava stone hard and porous, not flour contaminated with fragments (dangerous to the molars). Le macine consist of a tapered block (meta), attached to a masonry base, on which revolved a hourglass-shaped element (catillus), tied with a shaft to the Mule that made him turn: the grain was poured into catillus and crushed by the rubbing of two blocks. This bakery is missing the sales desk: it is likely that sell wholesale or by street vendors (libarii). The use of bread spreads among the Romans in the 2nd century. BC: before the flour was used to prepare the puls, a wheat gruel.

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