Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi

Discover how ancient Romans celebrated their most popular holiday with this unique historical cooking episode. This tutorial explores the festival of Saturnalia, a winter celebration honoring the god Saturn that marked a temporary return to a mythical golden age where social structures were reversed. To recreate the feasting spirit, the host demonstrates a second-century BC recipe for Globi from Cato the Elder's work De Agricultura. These fried, bite-sized proto-cheesecake dough balls are prepared using traditional ricotta cheese and whole-grain spelt flour, deep-fried to a golden brown, and then generously coated in sweet honey and crunchy poppy seeds.

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