Mary Beard has been writing about garum on her blog. She gives Heston Blumenthal about 7 out of 10 for his televised attempt to recreate it for a modern kitchen.
Is this another example of what I call serendipity? Well, not really. Mary Beard was one of the participants in the In Our Time which prompted my post.
I sense a new blogger version of the Kevin Bacon game coming on - Link the Fat Duck to Carthage in 6 steps or less. Or a PhD (or life time study) - Rotten Fish: Its Role in the Rise & Fall of Civilisations
