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Film Released: 1960
Genre: Adventure, History, Drama, Romance Spartacus (played by Kirk Douglas) is a Thracian who was born into slavery. A routine visit to the quarry where he is working by Batiatus, a Gladiator trainer (played by Peter Ustinov), results in Spartacus being bought to be trained as a Gladiator.
It is at the training school in Italy where he first comes across the beautiful Varinia, herself a slave in the house of Batiatus who in return, takes a shine to him. After weeks of training, Spartacus, incensed by the injustice of slavery, increased by the knowledge that Varinia has been sold and that he'll never see her again, leads the trainee gladiators in a rebellion and, killing many of the guards, they all escape.
Their freedom takes on a life of its own and Spartacus and the other gladiators decide to march South to the sea where they all hope to get ships to their original homelands. Further still, on their way they free as many slaves as they can and steal as many riches as they can from the slave-owners, culminating in a huge army of slaves making a bid for freedom. Spartacus is also reunited with Varinia and they become lovers.
The Senators in Rome are furious that slaves should revolt in such a way, especially as many of their own estates have been pillaged, so they send armies to crush the rebellion, but to no avail. In the end a huge army led by ex-senator Crassus (played by Laurence Olivier) defeats the slave army with dire consequences for the surviving male slaves who are crucified one by one because they refused to give Spartacus up, with all of them shouting " I AM SPARTACUS! " (an excellent scene). Varinia doesn't escape either, as Crassus takes her to his own household, knowing she is the "wife" of Spartacus with some believing that he is in love for the first time in his life.
The food aspect appears in a scene
after the big battle at Crassus' home where he is with
Varinia, and trying to be nice, though she has no time for him or his
riches.
Crassus: " Will you have some squab
and honey? " So, to our recipe. Firstly you may ask what is a squab? we will tell you - it's a baby pigeon. Here's a recipe for squab cooked with honey...we suggest you have the melon as a starter and don't forget the wine.
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Roast Squab with Honey HT MC 50mins plus marinating
Serves 4 Hot Poultry Herbs Main Course Gluten Wheat Dairy free Eggless
Ingredients 4 Prepared Squab - about 450g/1 lb
each
2. Rinse the squab under cold running
water, pat dry then add to the honey mixture and turn to coat. Cover with
clingfilm and set aside for at least 30 minutes, turning from time to time.
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