Saturnalian Banquet Menu 2009

 

Fercula
[courses of meal]

gustatio
[appetizers]

squillae platter:
prawns, shrimp, crayfish
pickled mussels and grape hyacinth bulbs
baby turnips and greens
loaves of Picentine bread

mulsum
[apéritif]

chilled Scybelite wine

prima mensa
[entrées]

blackened swordfish fillets
braised goose
smoked Lucanian sausages

secunda mensa
[desserts]

wild strawberries
honey cakes
filbert-stuffed figs
Sassina cheese

commissatio
[ceremonial toasts]

Falernian wine