If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you'd likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Surviving ...

Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...

Fermented fish sauce, or garum, was an incredibly popular condiment throughout the Roman Empire. For the first time, ancient DNA – scraped from vats used to produce the sauce – has revealed exactly ...

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Surströmming, a fermented herring considered to be a famous delicacy in Sweden, is also known as one of the most pungent foods in the world. More than a decade ago, NPR's Ari Shapiro attempted to eat ...

If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you'd likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce. Surviving Roman recipes add this to anything from barley porridge to a sweet ...