The ruins of a fish-salting and garum factory in what was once the Roman city of Baelo Claudia in southern Spain. Bridgeman Images While archaeologists have excavated concrete vats used for making ...

One of the most popular was garum, a salty, aromatic, fish-based sauce. Like so many other Roman treasures, it was borrowed from the ancient Greeks. Apicius used it in all his recipes, and the ...

Enric Germa, restless painter of paintings, travels to Garum to visit Norbre Estru, an art collector, married to Lebia, a beautiful and provocative woman, with whom he falls in love and with whom ...