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Dinner Time
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Hi Wes,

During an event I strive to be as authentic as possible, with my tent, my bedding and of course my food.

During the day I set up a wicker basket in my tent with food I can nibble at, it usuallu contains: fresh baked bread (spelt flour), oatmeal crackers, German pepper sausage (the Romans loved pepper, the army marched on pork), apple-wood smoked cheese, apples. I can't justify anything else.

In the evening I always cook an authentic soldier's meal, for more detail I recommend my book (sorry!) The Last Legionary, but essentially I limit it to spicy lentils, beef patties, chickem frontiniarum, barbequed livers and onions, or to prawn fritters.... simple camp food.
~ Paul Elliott

The Last Legionary
This book details the lives of Late Roman legionaries garrisoned in Britain in 400AD. It covers everything from battle to rations, camp duties to clothing.
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Dinner Time - by Wes - 09-10-2007, 08:42 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Hibernicus - 09-10-2007, 10:02 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Wes - 09-11-2007, 02:21 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by M. Demetrius - 09-11-2007, 03:10 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by Marcus Mummius - 09-11-2007, 10:16 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by Carlton Bach - 09-11-2007, 12:38 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Wes - 09-11-2007, 02:14 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by rusty myers - 09-11-2007, 02:23 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Marcus Mummius - 09-11-2007, 02:49 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Wes - 09-11-2007, 03:07 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Hibernicus - 09-11-2007, 11:43 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Mithras - 09-12-2007, 10:40 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Carlton Bach - 09-13-2007, 07:59 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by Marcus Mummius - 09-13-2007, 09:04 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by Mithras - 09-13-2007, 11:29 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by M. Demetrius - 09-13-2007, 01:01 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Mithras - 09-13-2007, 02:52 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Senovara - 09-13-2007, 03:03 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Carlton Bach - 09-13-2007, 04:31 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by M. Demetrius - 09-13-2007, 05:10 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Mithras - 09-13-2007, 05:11 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Senovara - 09-14-2007, 07:22 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Jeroen Pelgrom - 09-15-2007, 02:48 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by M. Demetrius - 09-15-2007, 03:00 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Senovara - 09-15-2007, 03:02 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Jeroen Pelgrom - 09-15-2007, 03:15 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Mark Headlee - 09-15-2007, 03:37 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by Wes - 10-11-2007, 07:05 PM
Re: Dinner Time - by caius matinius mattius - 07-01-2008, 04:56 AM
Re: Dinner Time - by Julilla - 07-01-2008, 01:51 PM

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