Food

History Of Food

 
History of food is as old as we are. At first humans used to eat raw meat and vegetables. Then the cave men discovered the way to lighten the fire through stones and they first got the idea to cook the food and then eat it. Most of the anthropologists believe that cooking fires first developed around 250,000 years ago. While others say that it started may be 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. It was one of the first and most important discoveries in human history. Later on, humans started to experiment and discover new ways to preserve, cook and eat the vegetables, meat, poultry and fruits.
So, in the beginning I’ll be sharing my information about history of food of each civilization in each post. And today I’ll be posting about the history of food in Ancient Egypt.

Food in Early Egypt:

In ancient Egypt, for most of the people food was simple and boring. Bread and beer was the primary food of them. Bread was baked in the open and because of that the desert’s sand was often present into dough. When people used to eat bread with grains of sand their teeth were broken.

Like all early civilizations meat was supposed to be eaten by rich only because it held the position of a luxury among the common people and only the rich people were able to afford it and eat it frequently. Even so, the Egyptians ate sheep, pigs, cows and goats but meat usually came from ducks and geese. Though, fish was abundant in Egypt.

The Egyptian food included many vegetables, such as marrows, beans, onions, lentils, leeks, radishes, garlic and lettuces. They also ate fruits like melons, dates and figs. Pomegranates were quite costly and were eaten mainly by the rich people. The Egyptians grew herbs and spices and they made cooking oil.

Beer was made from crumbled barley bread and barley with water so it was lumpy. It was strained before it was drunk. Even so it was still lumpy so it had to be drunk through a wooden straw with a filter. Better off Egyptians drank wine.