salve! Vibrissa sum. That Minimus has been getting a lot of attention recently - I think it's only fair that I should have some. This page is devoted to me and to my favourite thing - food. Our cook, Candidus, makes a lovely fried fish dish (when we can get any fish delivered!)and he always lets me have the scraps. Here is his recipe, which he found in a Roman cookbook:

Wash and fry the fish. Grind pepper, cumin, coriander, oregano, rue in a mortar. Heat the spices and add wine vinegar, dates, honey, wine, oil and fish sauce. Bring the sauce to the boil and pour over the fish.*
This is me - a fine figure of a cat.

*This is a real Roman recipe, from a famous cookbook by Apicius. He never gives any quantities, unlike a modern cookbook.

This is another Vibrissa - she's a lot thinner than me! That's because she doesn't live with a cook as good as Candidus.

Here's Candidus with a roast peacock.

 

And here I am again, as seen in a recent school Minimus play!
Minimus website created and maintained by Helen Forte, illustrator of the Minimus books.