Roman Inventions
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Enrique Granados Roman Inventions Today in many European cuisine and some Latin American cuisine is very common to see smoked food, salted, and dried food, but is not very known where these techniques were invented or developed. The Romans were the ones who developed these techniques for preserving the food. Smoking A site exists near the River Bann in Ireland, which is thought to have been a summer fishing camp. The site bears the remains of several hearths over which their fish are thought to have been smoked. Smoking not only dries the food, but also adds formaldehyde, which acts as a preservative to the process. Comparative evidence also indicates that the Romans probably utilized smoking. Today we use smoking to smoke beef, ham, and bacon. In the Mexican cuisine some peppers are smoked to make excellent sauces. Drying In Roman times, drying on a large scale probably relied on sun and...

