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Historical Re-enactment » Re-enactment Groups » KuanUm!
KuanUm!
Age: Època Antiga
Web page: http://kuanum.blogspot.com/
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KuanUm! is a group interested in researching and spreading cultural heritage through gastronomy. With headquarters in Hospitalet de Llobregat, KuanUm's discoveries in historical cooking are numerous and have boosted the group's reputation. The group sustains their research on the historical evolution of cooking through archaeological, historical, ethnographical and documental sources in a constant effort to bring back flavours and smells from the past.
Very few groups in Europe have made so great a contribution to Roman cooking and feeding as Kuan Um!. It is a very important matter yet too often forgotten. Their findings on cooking since Pre-Roman period until the Industrial Revolution are twice significant. On the one hand, gastronomy is explained within the period cultural framework, revealing, for instance, why Roman bridegrooms were thrown at walnuts, or why Romans ate so hurriedly when at lunch. On the other hand, lots of recipes and dishes have been recovered, among them frugal breakfasts of legionaries in a camp bordering Germanic tribes; or highly exquisite dishes offered in magnificent banquets by Roman's potentates to their guests. Some of the dishes regained come from the well-known book De Re Coquinaria, a treaty of cooking attributed to gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius. Especially noteworthy is the recovery of "garum" the sauce for excellence in the Roman world, which has long been erroneously thought to be made of olive paste. Also worth mentioning are findings on the use of vegetal spices which are currently not in use in Mediterranean diets.
KuanUm! has lately opened to new re-enactment targets and has started to replicate personal clothing and daily life objects, such as necklaces, as well as childhood games, cosmetics or ancient medicine. The group also works in the diffusion of their work to particular collectives like the mentally and sensory handicapped.
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