{"id":295,"date":"2011-03-12T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-03-13T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T20:44:42","slug":"dormice-not-just-for-nursery-ryhmes-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Dormice: Not Just for Nursery Ryhmes Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Loir-gris.Myolux-Glis..Glis_.Glis_.Edible-or-Fatty-dormouse.France.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-297\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Edible-Dormouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Loir-gris.Myolux-Glis..Glis_.Glis_.Edible-or-Fatty-dormouse.France-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Loir-gris.Myolux-Glis..Glis_.Glis_.Edible-or-Fatty-dormouse.France-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Loir-gris.Myolux-Glis..Glis_.Glis_.Edible-or-Fatty-dormouse.France.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a>Today Meg and I braved Times Square to hit the new Pompeii exhibit.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the exhibit&#8217;s areas was a display of the kitchen tools and actual food found at Pompeii.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the 2000 year old bread and the ancient cooking instruments was a sign that talked about common eats in the region and era.\u00c2\u00a0 The most interesting menu item: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edible_dormouse\" target=\"_blank\">dormice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, those crazy Romans would take a dormouse, put it in a clay jar, fatten him up, and eat him.\u00c2\u00a0 Eaten as appetizers, or as desserts, dipped in honey and poppy seeds, dormice were considered a luxury.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been a fan of savory over sweet but I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;m ready for this on my desert plate.\u00c2\u00a0 (Okay, that&#8217;s a total lie, if I found this on a menu I would have no choice but to order it.\u00c2\u00a0 You know how I love savory desserts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Meg and I braved Times Square to hit the new Pompeii exhibit.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the exhibit&#8217;s areas was a display of the kitchen tools and actual food found at Pompeii.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the 2000 year old bread and the ancient cooking instruments was a sign that talked about common eats in the region and era.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-exotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}