Crossword clues for garum
garum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garum \Ga"rum\ (g[=a]"r[u^]m), n. [L., fr. Gr. ga`ros.] A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Wiktionary
n. A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
Wikipedia
Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the cuisines of ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. Liquamen was a similar preparation, and at times the two were synonymous. Although it enjoyed its greatest popularity in the Roman world, the sauce was earlier used by the Greeks.
The Romans thought the Latin word garum derived from the Greek garos, a fish from which it was supposed to have been originally made, but this fish-name is unattested in classical Greek. It is believed to be the ancestor of the fermented anchovy sauce Colatura di Alici which is still produced today in Campania, Italy.
Usage examples of "garum".
The only reason you claim not to be fond of garum, Gordianus, is because you're used to the awful stuff that's passed off as garum-smelly pots of fermented fish entrails with a few crushed olives and a sprig of rosemary thrown in for seasoning.
Every so often I purchase some of his garum, just to remind myself what an inferior recipe tastes like.
Among those who could afford it, the garum of Lucius Claudius was a much sought-after, highly valuable commodity, the integrity of which he wished devoutly to safeguard.
Acastus, he had assured me, was the most trustworthy of all the foremen on all his farms and manufactories (for garum was only one of Lucius's moneymaking enterprises).
Nowadays everyone eats it, every day, on everything-or at least they eat something they call garum, whether it's worthy of the name or not.
Known to open the garum pots during fermentation and scatter it all about.
A month from now he can sell it at his little shop in Rome and claim that it's every bit as delicious as the famous garum of Lucius Claudius-since it is the garum of Lucius Claudius!
If it happens that you two have been damaging batches of garum on purpose-"
I'll turn a blind eye to this morning's mischief, in exchange for your promise that you'll never sell garum to Fabricius again.
After all, a lifetime's supply of the world's best garum was at stake!
And the rest is garum, brought hither all the way from Videssos the city.
And in fact, the meal, while strange to his palate, hadn't tasted bad—but after he found out what garum was, he couldn't bring himself to eat another bite of kid.