![]() After playing every single Caesar 3 scenario in more ways than the designers thought possible.'Hey, let's do Carthago without prefects!' we can soon take on Carthago in a different way. I know a great many of us have been awaiting this moment. Lest we think we moderns invented 'take home,' let us acknowledge the ancient Romans who really may have been first with the idea. Markets were available for foods not requiring preparation such as fruit and were frequented by average citizens, but these markets appear to have sold cooked staples like meats to the kitchens, not directly to citizens. Instead, they relied upon these local kitchens for hot meals and may have paid some approriate amount of dinarii or barter for the service. However, local 'kitchens' or food preparation shops have been uncovered mingled within insulae dominated residential areas suggesting that insulae-dwelling ancient Romans seldom cooked their own meals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, no rooms seem to feature any method of venting harmful gasses from fires that may have been set on the floor or in any other area of the rooms. Archaeologists digging in and around Rome's ancient housing sites noted that apartment-like dwellings, insulae, almost never had rooms they could identify as a galley or kitchen for cooking foods.
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