Maureen Fant and Eating Like Romans · Jun 2, 04:30 PM by James Martin
Eternally Cool has a good interview with Maureen Fant, author of both cookbooks and books on how women lived in ancient Greece and Rome.
I (sadly) have to admit that this is the first I’ve heard of Ms. Fant, in spite of the fact that we seem to lead somewhat parallel lives, moving from archaeology to writing about food and culture in current times.
I went to her web page and found that we also share some of the same pet peeves. One is a proper disgust for the socialized mispronunciation of Italian words—as if saying them correctly in the US was some sort of punishable subversion of national pride. She (reluctantly, it seems) gives cooking classes:
The “lesson” that follows the shopping is thus an improvisational tour de force, not so much a class as a bunch of friends rolling up their sleeves and getting lunch together. But with me bossing everybody around. This makes for an intense encounter, during the course of which I berate them for mispronouncing bruschetta (it’s broosketta, puh-leez)
Hurray for her. And this makes me want to sign up for a consultation, pronto:
I can also offer private tutorials in Roman food ways (i.e., all theory, not cooking and eating, maybe a little drinking, though).
I’ll drink to that.
Oh, and her food blog tells you what’s fresh at the Testaccio market. Don’t you wish you were there? I do.
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