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Looking for something to do on your next trip to St. Augustine, Florida? There are many attractions outside of this city's ...
Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing ...
The only surviving ancient Roman cookbook reveals the ancient origins behind Europe’s most iconic dishes and flavors.
When life filled the Roman city of Pompeii, wine played an important role. There were wine bars and restaurants, and vineyards as well. Now grapegrowing and winemaking will return to the city in the ...
Wine has been produced for millennia. The oldest evidence goes back 5,000 years or more, with Georgia, Armenia and Iran vying with each other to find evidence of the very oldest winery. Closer to ...
Like all the best Italian food, the menu at Roman wine bar Casa Mariotti is simple. Polpette al sugo (meatballs in tomato sauce), bucatini all’Amatriciana that relies on guanciale fat for flavour ...
To better understand why a Roman wine goblet was buried with an Anglo-Saxon girl, Willmott and colleagues analyzed the organic residue remaining at the bottom of the vessel. They discovered a high ...
The presence of cremated bones, meanwhile, sheds more light on funerary rituals prevalent in the Spanish region in the Roman era. The skeletal remains were immersed in the wine along with a gold ring.
An ancient Roman tomb discovered during home renovations in southern Spain contains cremated bones and ashes that have been soaking for two millennia in white wine. “This is the oldest wine discovered ...
Archaeologists working in southern Italy have identified a Roman fortification built to contain the slave revolt leader Spartacus and his army. Researchers have concluded that the wall ...
I have featured wines made from falanghina before. It is found in Campania in southern Italy and may have been the grape used to make the ancient Roman wine Falernian. It is noted as having ...