Cooking the volumes

TL;DR

This paper explores traditional cooking volume measures, comparing them with ancient Roman capacity units to understand their features and historical context.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of modern cooking volume units and ancient Roman measures, highlighting similarities and differences.

Findings

Cooking measures are based on historical units.

Roman measures of capacity share features with modern cooking units.

The study offers insights into the evolution of measurement systems.

Abstract

Cooking possesses a system of units of measurement, that includes measures of volumes based on pre-metric units. This paper discusses the cooking measures and compares their features with those of the ancient Roman measures of capacity.