Garum n. : A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

Example:
can someone pleae tell me what "Garum" is. i belive that it comes from the roman period & is used with food?.

Taxonomy
garum, fish, Romans, factory, free encyclopedia, sauce, in Pompeii, Fish Products, Salted Fish, liquamen, Fish sauce, flavour, ancient Romans, ancient city, Seneca, to Rome, fermented fish, SCAURI.

Defination from the web:
garum was ladled off of the top of the mixture, the remains of the fish, called allec, was used by the poorest classes to flavour their staple porridge. ... While among the rich the best garum fetched prices for which the historian of food Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat ...