fish sauce

Roman fish sauce, along with oil and wine, formed a triad of commodities which dominated Mediterranean trade. The fish sauce is garum, and the quote comes from a publisher’s tout for The Story of Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce and Salted Fish in the Ancient World, a book by Sally Grainger published a few years back […]

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