Salty fish sauce: a short guide to making your own garum like in "Asterix and Obelix in Lusitania"

Friends with sensitive noses, move on. The recipe we're going to tell you about today isn't suitable for all senses of smell or taste buds, either when preparing it or eating it. For others, it's a delicacy appreciated by the most illustrious figures, including Julius Caesar. At least, that's what Fabcaro and Didier Conrad tell us in Asterix in Lusitania. In this new album, praised by Libé and published in 5 million copies , our two Gallic friends go to Portugal to save Mavubès, the consul's favorite garum producer, who has fallen victim to the machinations of a jealous competitor.

So far, so classic. A plot, a journey, and food, a theme at the heart of many stories about the heroes of Armorica (wild boars, banquets, the Tour de Gaule, the anti-hangover recipe in the