A pizzeria in Budapest just did what most food historians only theorize about — they made pizza the way ancient Romans might have eaten it, which is to say, without anything we’d recognize as pizza. No tomatoes. No mozzarella. No running water to make the dough rise. Just fermented spinach…
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A Roman Soldier Walks Into a New Orleans Backyard
How a 2nd-Century Headstone Became Louisiana Lawn Décor It’s not every day you find a 2nd-century Roman tombstone while trimming the hedges — but this is New Orleans, where time and logic both sweat through their shirts before noon. When Tulane anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband Aaron Lorenz started…