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I share you general thoughts on this being a stretch and feeling somewhat euro-centric. The article author, fwiw, is "a Rome-based freelance reporter".

• mrscottson 6y ago
  Simple test, do Europeans eat more fish than Asians, Africans? I find it highly likely that such fish recipes emerged from places with direct access to the world's spices and that consumed a large % of the world's fish. If I had to guess, it would be East or South East Asia...places that have a long history of preserving fish. From my understanding, even at Rome's population peak, India & China both had larger populations. Due to religious practices, I suspect a larger percentage of those populations consumed fish regularly.