Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
garum: the fermented fish sauce Romans put on everything
Fish guts and salt fermented in the sun for months. Sounds awful, tastes like umami. Southeast Asian fish sauce is a very close relative.
5 sources · 29 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “what did garum taste like”
- Ended at
- Apicius
The Trail
- “what did garum taste like” (google.com)
- Garum (en.wikipedia.org)
- Fish sauce (en.wikipedia.org)
- Colatura di alici (en.wikipedia.org)
basically still exists on the Amalfi coast
- Apicius (en.wikipedia.org)
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