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The thermopolium was a fixture of Pompeii—the newly discovered site is just one of 80 such restaurants that have been found in the city—because poor Roman families couldn’t afford to have kitchens in their homes. And, in an inversion of contemporary society, the wealthy didn’t go out for expensive meals.

Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic and is nicknamed “The City of a Hundred Spires.” The Vltava River splits the city in two. Among other