The Garum Chronicles.

A visit to Gadir, the oldest city in western Europe.

Before I learned to make my own garum, the fish sauce of the ancient world (aka garos, aka liquamen, aka haimation), I paid a visit to Cádiz, Spain. I’d heard that a team at the local university had replicated the sauce in the lab, and that chefs had embraced its use in their cooking.

Cádiz is actually west of the Pillars of Hercules—Gibraltar—so it’s on…