Imagine, if you will, the most glorious festive feast, with an oversize turkey, stuffing two ways, holiday ham, the requisite fixings and at least half a dozen pies and cakes. That may all sound grand ...

The Roman banquet may well have been the original staging ground of gastronomic excess — think platters of peacock tongue and fried dormice, chased down with liters of wine poured by naked waiters.

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...

The song thrush was the most abundant species in an assemblage of animal bones found in an ancient Roman trash pit © Andyworks via Getty Images Ancient Romans in ...

This was likely a seasonal menu item among street vendors in the ancient city of Pollentia, a study said. Screen grab of YouTube video posted by Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

A little park in Wilton Manors is hosting a feast fit for a king — maybe several or dozens of kings. For the fourth-annual “Taste of the Island” evening, 48 restaurants and drinking establishments are ...

A new book profiles 10 prominent emperors who helped shape the destiny of Rome. Part of their legacy includes wild stories of hedonistic banquets,... The Roman banquet may well have been the original ...

On the island of Mallorca, in what was once the ancient Roman city of Pollentia, researchers have unearthed evidence of street food vendors selling an item long believed to be reserved for the elite.