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Ad nauseam recreating a Roman banquet seemed like a good idea.(THE LAST PAGE)
IN A FIT OF NOSTALGIA for the 2, 034th-birthday party my high-school Latin class threw for Virgil, I signed on as chairperson for the Authentic Roman Banquet at my 12-year-old son's middle school. My son hates Latin (which I made him take), and I was hoping the banquet would bring the language alive for him and his equally alienated classmates. I had forgotten nullum beneficium est impunitum: no good deed goes unpunished.
A little research turned up the disheartening news that every-thing culinary we associate with Rome today--pasta, pizza, etc.--came long after Julius Caesar. A cookbook of ancient recipes didn't help. Many Roman dishes were garnished with a sauce called …
