Dinner Time

[Carlton Bach]

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.

I don't mean to sound nitpicky (and I do that kind of thing, too), but this sounds like an awfully luxurious lifestyle. Nothing I couldn't see for a soldier in quarters, but on the march or in the field it would take an awful lot of labour and logistics to organise.