Rich Romans had large, well equipped kitchens to cope with fine banquets and dinner parties. Often placed in an obscure corner of the house, meals were prepared by the household's slaves. Ingredients such as swan, rabbit, fish could be found in the culina, as well as plenty of herbs and spices to flavour food.
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Amphora Jug
Decorative amphora, used for storing wine or oil. One can never have enough amphorae in my opinion ;-)
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Two Clay Amphorae
A different shape to my last lot of amphorae (below), these two clay amphorae can be used for storing olive oil, wine, foods and the like. Cloned from the vase sculpture, so not really useable, but I think it looks nice in storage or in the culina :P
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Clay Amphorae
Amphorae were commonly used to store all sorts of food products, including wine, olive oil, and water. Often pictured in huge bunches together, these ones come in clusters of four, and would look best sitting against a wall for support. E-Group only download.
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Amphorae Shelf
Amphorae vessels were commonly used throughout the Roman empire, namely because they were practical, fairly easy to make, and hard to break (unless dropped). This shelf is cloned from a fire alarm so your sims won't die from third degree burns, and contains various clay vessels of different shapes and sizes on it. E-Group only download.
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Small Culina Shelf
A little shelf for placing in the culina - this one can hold small utensils such as clay jars. A shelf like this would have been able to hold other small objects, but as this is decorative, it won't :P. Place on the walls of your kitchen, near the stove or mortar. Backless.
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Pots and Herbs Rack
A useful little rack for placing in the culina - holds pots, herbs other utensils. This one also has some onions. Place on the walls of your kitchen, near the stove or mortar. Backless.
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Hanging Animals
The rich Romans ate a variety of meats - some more exotic than others. This pack of three animals includes a rabbit (or hare), a chicken, and a peacock to hang along the walls of your culina. Backless.
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Culina Stove
A typical Roman oven, with plaster covering the brick stove (some bits of plaster have come off, revealing the bricks underneath). A grill rests of top of the stove, as do some dishes and pottery for preparing food. Wood is stored underneath for fuel for the fire.
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Small Concrete Oven
This was originally supposed to be a plebeian 'stove' from a tiny sketch in one of my history books, however, I figured that it was far too heavy (in the sim sense) for any plebeian to assemble or even own (I mean, they wouldn't be able to afford a stove that patricians might own). So, even though the file name has 'pleb' in it, this oven can actually be used in the culina... or a snack bar on the lower floor of an insulae. Be warned however, that the pot which the sims use to cook may look like it floats or doesn't sit on the stove, as this stove is lower in height than it should be.
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Large Concrete Stove
An extension of the tavern set seen at Kore, this large stove can be used in the culina for cooking up delicious dinner parties. Not entirely perfect, with a few splats of z-buff problems, but it's not too noticeable if you don't use walls that stand out in colour ;-) (I just don't feel like fixing it anymore :P)
Updated the p-sprites, so now the stove looks better, not as cartoonish and flat.
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Basket of Oranges
A wicker basket containing some very large oranges. Fruit was commonly eaten in Rome, so I thought perhaps it would look nice to have some ingredients in a culina ;-) You could also use this as part of a market - a fruit vendor for instance. :-)
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Vegetables in a Basket
A basket with some green vegetables. It would also look nice at a marketplace, besides the culina. Romans also ate plenty of vegetables, the rich Romans adding a lot of flavour to their food with the flavoured sauces. I'm not sure what vegetables these are exactly - lettuce maybe?
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Wooden Basin
Water did not run to the insulae, at least not to the upper floors. This meant that the poor had to walk to the nearest fountain, usually a street fountain at the side of the road, to collect water. Some plebeians may have taken water from the fountain in buckets/amphorae for washing. This basin has been cloned from a counter sink, so your plebs can wash their hands/dishes in it.
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