Just like Americans like to call a full-course meal 'from soup to nuts', citizens of the Roman empire used the expression 'from the egg to the ___' what?
Food and dining in the Roman Empire public figures might be accused of. Mills and commercial ovens were usually combined in a bakery complex. The importance of a good diet to health was recognized by medical writers such as Galen (2nd century AD), whose treatises included one "On Barley Soup". Views on nutrition were influenced by schools of thought such as humoral theory. Digestion of food within the body was thought to be a process analogous to cooking. The Latin expression for a full-course dinner was "ab ovo usque mala", "from the egg to the apples," equivalent to the English "from soup to nuts." A multicourse dinner
From Soup to Nuts From Soup to Nuts From Soup to Nuts is a 1928 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as butlers hired for a high society dinner party. When Stan is asked to serve the salad undressed he serves it in his underwear. The film was remade as a 20-minute section at the start of their 1940 feature "A Chump at Oxford", added to extend that film's length for European audiences. The film centers around Stan and Ollie being hired as waiters at an upper class dinner party and subsequently not making a very good job of it. The film starts