{"id":11356,"date":"2022-08-29T19:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2022-08-29T19:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:19:46","slug":"a-loaf-of-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11356","title":{"rendered":"A loaf of bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two thousand years ago, on August 24, 79 AD, in the fine town of Herculaneum, Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herculaneum_loaf\">a loaf of bread<\/a> baked. The loaf never left the oven and they never had a chance to eat any of it. They were interrupted by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.<\/p>\n<p>Celer is known to have survived the cataclysm, as his name later appears on a list of freed slaves. The bread also survived, albeit not in edible form. The carbonized loaf was discovered by archeologists in 1930.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11357\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/herculaneum-loaf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/herculaneum-loaf.jpg 576w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/herculaneum-loaf-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To think&#8230; a loaf of bread, intact, in such good shape, the stamp of its owner is clearly visible and legible. And it speaks volumes of a highly organized society, in which such stamped loafs of bread were regularly prepared at communal bakeries.<\/p>\n<p>Darnit, it must have been tasty, too. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/breadtopia.com\/panis-quadratus-ancient-bread-of-pompeii\/\">modern recipes<\/a> attempting to recover the flavor and texture of the original. One of these days, we ought to give it a try.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11356' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two thousand years ago, on August 24, 79 AD, in the fine town of Herculaneum, Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus had a loaf of bread baked. The loaf never left the oven and they never had a chance to eat any of it. They were interrupted by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11356' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-history","category-47-id","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}