Fermented fish, cheese with maggots, black pudding or offal: across Europe’s kitchens there are specialities that can make even seasoned gourmets recoil at first. Yet disgust is subjective. What is ...

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 ...

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