Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish-sauce much prized by the ancients, made of small fish preserved in a certain kind of pickle; also, a pickle prepared from the gills or the blood of the tunny.
Wiktionary
- n. A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Etymologies
- From Latin garum, from Ancient Greek γάρον (garon, "the fish whose intestines were originally used in the condiment's production"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nowadays everyone eats it, every day, on everything -- or at least they eat something they call garum, whether it's worthy of the name or not.”
“The famous pickle of the ancients, called garum, was made of the gills and blood of the tunny, or thynnus.”
“Asian Fish Pastes and Sauces Asian fermented fish pastes and sauces are vital manifestations of a preparation that has mostly disappeared in Europe but was once well known as garum or liquamen, the fish sauce of Rome see box, p.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“They likely also controlled the fishery and saltery where the famous fish sauce of the Romans known as garum was made from the guts of fish left to ferment in the hot Mediterranean sun.”
“The best was called garum sociorum, a term of which we have seen no satisfactory explanation, and sold for 1,000 sesterces for two congii, about $20 a gallon.”
“The ships had been carrying amphorae, or large jars, containing wine from Italy, and cargo from North Africa and Spain including olive oil, fruit and garum, a pungent fish sauce that was a favorite ingredient in Roman cooking.”
The Huffington Post: Ancient Shipwrecks Found Off Italian Coast
“I dabbed my finger into the garum and took another taste.”
“That night Acastus and I dined not on squirrel but on herb bread and liver pate, with generous helpings of garum.”
“The first sample you tasted is my own brand of garum.”
“I took a sip of wine to clear my palate, then dipped my finger into the dollop of garum to my right.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘garum’.
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Open List: Sauces
A list of sauces, used in cuisines around the world. Many of these are listed in the encyplopedic tome of French cookery, Larouse Gastronomique.
Be sure to visit Ruzuzu's savory list ...vinaigrette, hollandaise, mayonnaise, juniper berry and..., béarnaise, allemande, sauce suprême, tarragon sauce, ravigote sauce, vert-pré sauce, tortue sauce, béchamel and 118 more...
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Condiments
ketchup, catsup, mustard, relish, mayo, mayonnaise, condiment, horseradish, wasabi, mango pickle, mint chutney, Sabrett's Prepare... and 38 more...
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Food that Shall Not Be Named
Vilest food substances on the planet. Take it beyond simple likes and dislikes, people. We're talking food that's really gross (at least to a big cross-section of the world), or utterly bizarre.
casu marzu, pickled pig lips, head cheese, lutefisk, surströmming, hákarl, stinkhead, stinkflipper, haggis, muktuk, jellied pig's feet, tripe and 21 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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A great ferment
sauerkraut, kvass, kumis, yogurt, pulque, sourdough, kimchi, skyr, lassi, vinegar, miso, surströmming and 12 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Fun menu items
spotted dick, bubble and squeak, toad in the hole, pets de nonnes, pigs in a blanket, prairie oysters, ropa vieja, manchamanteles, arme ritter, schwalbennester, strammer max, cabeza de gato and 119 more...
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More fun than a barrel of pickles
Pickled foods.
kimchi, chowchow, picalilli, sauerkraut, gherkin, cornichon, kosher dill, relish, chutney, tsukemono, achar, giardiniera and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for garum.
chained_bear Book recommendation warning!
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. Seen here.
Edit: Wait. I don't understand that article. Are they saying that they figured out that the eruption was August 24, 79 based on the garum? Because the garum takes a while to ferment, and keeps for quite a while as well, so how could they pinpoint the date that closely? Couldn't the garum have been in there for a long time before the eruption, thus skewing the date? Oct 28, 2008
bilby "The find revealed that the last Pompeian garum was made entirely with bogues (known as boops boops), a Mediterranean fish species that abounded in the area in the summer months of July and early August."
Boops boops :-) Oct 28, 2008
sionnach
Fish sauce dating of Vesuvius eruption
Oct 28, 2008