Thanks to the wonders of Amazon book search, I have discovered that ancient romans actually possessed LASER TECHNOLOGY and that these Romans in their infinite classical wisdom used the lasers to create a delicious pork sauce! The image gobsmacking your domepiece right now comes from the ever-invaluable Apicius
(↝via actually it might have been google, but i think amazon. yes, I google “laser sauce” in my spare time.)
yes it was google. I think I clicked “books” by mistake. This was a long while ago.