What did rich Romans eat at dinner parties?

Answer 1

At Roman banquets, the guests would sit on sofas, belly first, with a table in front of them. They would eat very lavish foods, such as quail eggs, doormice, song birds, and other delicacies. And of course, there was wine. Lots of it. they would have wine with water, wine with honey, wine with costly spices, and wine with chilled snow from the mountains. Romans didn't drink wine by itself. Feasts would last days, and guests would eat so much, they would throw up repeatedly in a special room. Banquets also had entertainment, depending on the tastes of the host. There would be musicians, dancers, acrobats doing tricks, comedians, or readings from a poem or book. One thing for sure, a Roman banquet was a cook's nightmare.

Answer 2

The Romans had two types of banquets; there were the public banquets and the private ones. At public banquets, which were given by the emperor at certain festivals, or a general who had celebrated a triumph, the food was adequate (meat vegetables, dessert) but nothing elaborate as Rome had a population of around one million and the expense was enormous. The private banquets, given in private homes had the exotic foods and the elaborate combinations of foods that we read about. The stuffed dormice, peacock eggs and flamingo tongue could be served along with the finest wines available.

Answer 3

they drank wine and ate fish and fruit