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TEXT 2: GARUM IN THE 21 st CENTURY

1 In modern laboratories, scientists are working to recreate garum, a sauce made from putrefying fish that was beloved by the

2 ancient Greeks and Romans but hardly sounds appealing to 21st-century food lovers.

3 The Latin term garum could refer to both a sauce used in the cooking process —sometimes also called liquamen — and to a

4 condiment, made with the blood and viscera of fish, that writers such as Petronius, Ausonius and Seneca knew as garum sociorum

5 (" garum of the allies").

6 Archaeologists had been unsuccessful in extracting well-preserved garum at excavations in Tunisia and other Mediterranean

7 locations until Italian researchers in 2009 discovered six sealed dolia —large clay amphoras— in a building that they named the

8 Garum Shop at Pompeii. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 had buried the building under ash, thus perfectly preserving a

9 small liquamen factory.

10 Food technicians from the universities of Cadiz and Seville analysed the contents of the dolia at Pompeii and, using that

11 information and a liquamen recipe thought to have been written in the third century AD, produced what they claim is the first

12 scientific recreation of the 2,000-year-old fish sauce. This recreation is called Flor de Garum and is being sold in amphora-shaped

13 glass bottles throughout Spain. Chefs state that it supercharges dishes with a potent flavour.

14 It has been said that it is impossible to recreate definitive modern versions of these Roman ancient fish sauces, but at least

15 this is the first time in modern history that a scientific reconstruction of garum has been successfully achieved.

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According to the text,...

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According to the text, Flor de Garum is made using...

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Today, people would love the original garum.

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Garum could be used in two different ways in Roman cooking.

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Some garum amphoras were not destroyed due to volcanic activity.

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The new garum also helps to soften the taste of dishes.

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FALSE

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