Seeing Zhang Nan hand over the pepper shaker, Jenny hurriedly waved her hand, "No, no, I'll do it myself, I'll use this." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Picked up the pepper grinder on the table, twisted it a few times, and added some pepper to his fried fish, using the things handed over by Zhang Nan.

But Guan Xingquan didn't care, although his face was a little weird, he still took it and looked at it carefully, and then sprinkled some on the steak on his plate.

Zhang Nan also sprinkled some of his steak and handed it to Alyosha.

The big guy didn't care, he threw a lot of it, and he ate with a heavy taste: if it was Karimi or Shamili, he would be able to get you a small half bottle after a meal!

Eating habits.

Or roast whole sheep, this bottle is not enough.

Watching the other three feast, this Jenny looked a little embarrassed, that jar had only been dug out of the geography for half a day, and it had been buried in the mud for nearly 1,600 years before!

"Alan, you won't ...... with this thing"

The woman didn't say it explicitly, but she knew what it meant.

"It's all sterilized, absolutely hygienic. Besides, even if this person eats some soil, it's no problem, don't we eat vegetables?"

Some vegetables grown in ordinary ways will bring some soil if they are not cleaned properly, and they will not get sick or bad if they eat a little. In particular, Westerners love lettuce, and "raw" things are easier to get into the stomach.

Clean?

You just can't see it.

Feeling that this would not be able to talk well to her own man, Jenny seemed to change the subject: there seemed to be a mistake in what Alan said just now, and she could fight back.

Your heart is so good that you don't want to eat well!

Life's little pleasures.

Jenny is not a historian when she reads, and I don't know when the Romans will leave Britain, but she knows that the ancient Romans were particularly fond of spices - in ancient Rome, almost all kinds of spices were used in the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the Romans, and this pepper was the most important!

"Allen, as far as I know, Roman citizens in ancient Rome used pepper as condiments in their homes, and what you just said was the treatment of top nobles, right?!"

Seeing Jenny's expression of waiting for him to eat, Zhang Nan stuffed a small piece of steak into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it in one bite.

"Dear Miss Jenny, in ancient Rome you could flaunt your wealth with a bag of pepper, I really lied to you. In 410 AD, the Gothic leader Alaric led an army to besiege the city of Rome.

In addition to demanding 5,000 pounds of gold from the Romans, Alaric demanded 30,000 silver coins, 4,000 pieces of silk, 3,000 pieces of red cloth, and 3,000 pounds of pepper. It would be dyed cloth, silk and pepper were not cheap, and ordinary people could not afford to use them, otherwise the Goths would not have come to such a lion to open their mouths. ”

When Jenny heard this, she was not convinced: "I know about the Goths' attack on the city of Rome, and their king promised her queen that she would never finish silk before attacking Rome.

Silk was expensive, red dye was also scarce at that time, and noble women did not wear white clothes, I know this. But my dear, can you break it up, the ancient Roman god soldiers carried pepper as a condiment, and the military supplies also included it, are all soldiers nobles?"

It can be seen that Jenny should also be a foodie, at least when she was a student, otherwise she would not have forgotten the important time points in the textbook, but she remembered what she ate clearly.

Spices had a special significance in the Mediterranean region during the Roman period, and the Romans were very fond of eating spice-flavored food, which they saw as a sign of civilized eating.

No matter how the Roman Empire changed, whether it was strong or weak, the Romans' love for spices remained the same.

And not only in terms of diet, but also in many other aspects of spices also occupy an important position, such as in the early medical theories of the East and the West, spices occupy an important position.

Not only in Europe, but also in the East: in the Tang Dynasty, star anise was not sold in vegetable markets, but in pharmacies.

In ancient Europe, doctors even used spices to treat typhoid fever and the Black Death...... I don't know how effective it is, anyway, it's written in the literature.

It is said that some ethnic groups use pepper porridge as a recipe for treating impotence and premature ejaculation, and ginger is used to treat infertility all year round......

Why don't you give it a try?

In addition, spices were also a must-have in the funerals of the Romans...

"In ancient China, this spice was even equivalent to gold when it was the most expensive, and it was very expensive for a long time in Europe. This is because the origin of many varieties of spices is not in Europe, nor is it in China, and the ups and downs of spice prices are actually mainly due to the actual situation of traffic conditions.

Pepper has been used as currency in Europe for a long time, and there is a saying in Europe that the super-rich are called 'pepper bags'. ”

This Jenny nodded, he still knew the old tradition.

"The cheapest period of spices in ancient Europe was probably at the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, when the Roman middle class was able to taste spices, and even used spices as military pay for Roman soldiers stationed in Britain and other frontier areas.

However, in the third century AD, Anxi and Sassanid Persia monopolized the entrepot trade of spices and silk, and the price of spices in the West soared.

Jenny, the price you are talking about is the price before the early 3rd century AD, in Rome a kilogram of gold can be exchanged for 90 kilograms of spices, but by the time of the siege of Alaric, that is, when Honorius was emperor, this spice was already worth as much as gold in Rome!

It is recorded that the Roman Empire spent 100 million silver coins a year on the import of spices, and the Romans' fanatical demand for spices was maintained until the collapse of Roman rule in Europe.

In the Middle Ages, the price of spices was also very high, and it is said that the Roman-pope would distribute all kinds of meat, wine and cereals to merchants, ordinary citizens and peasants, but spices were only available to the nobility.

Because it's identity.

Moreover, at that time, the relations between European countries were not very good with those of the spice-producing countries. ”

As he spoke, he played with the pepper shaker in his hand: "This thing should have been something a few years before the Goths besieged the city of Rome, when pepper was already equivalent to gold in the city of Rome, let alone in Britain that was even farther away."

Ordinary people can't afford it. ”

Jenny rolled her eyes, and finally held back the sentence: "I'll go back and check the information." ”

It seems that she is still a little unconvinced: her words have no evidence, and she needs historical data as evidence to accept it.

Zhang Nan shrugged his shoulders and said that it didn't matter, so far: don't take this home life too seriously, too really stupid.