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To eat: Wheat based foods like bread, pastry, pasta, cake. Beans of all kinds, fish, meat (pork, chicken, game), olives and its oil, Mediterranean fruits and vegs. Lots of cheeses, mostly goat and sheep based. A garum like sauce, usually combined with a sour component like lime juice.
To drink: Beer is rarely drunk in the cities, it's a rural, very low status drink. Wine is the drink of choice of the rich, watered wine and vinegar stirred into boiling water is for the commons.
Cooking: Anything from gruel or bread with olives and figs to elaborate multi-course meals with birds tongues, mussels, and multilayered sweet puddings.