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Fish Sauce - The Romans Take It Onboard
Before the romans arrived, people in northern europe had made dew with seasoning their grains and lentils with salt. Fish sauce was so critical to romans that soldiers took it with them everywhere they went. No debauched roman banquet would be complete without it. In southern spain, along that coast from quediz to cartagena, there are fish sauce factories every few miles. They have huge capacity, long, long rows of tanks, which can produce thousands of gallons of fish sauce at any one time.
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