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This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating in ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians were bread and beer, often accompanied by green-shooted onions, other vegetables, and to a lesser extent meat, game and fish.
Meat stewed with onions, garlic, and leeks and flavored with cumin and coriander is described on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets, and it is most likely that it was prepared similarly in ancient Israel. Stewed meat was considered to be a dish worthy of serving to honored guests (Judges 6:19–20).
Butcher's meat was an uncommon luxury. The most popular meat was pork, especially sausages. [19] Beef was uncommon in ancient Rome, being more common in ancient Greece – it is not mentioned by Juvenal or Horace. [19] Seafood, game, and poultry, including ducks and geese, were more usual.
In ancient Greece, fruit and vegetables were a significant part of the diet, as the ancient Greeks consumed much less meat than in the typical diet of modern societies. [68] Legumes would have been important crops, as their ability to replenish exhausted soil was known at least by the time of Xenophon. [69]
Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has ...
Galen: on food and diet. (M. Grant, Trans.). London and New York: Routledge. Garnsey, P. (1988). Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world : Responses to risk and crisis. Cambridge Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press. Garnsey, P. (1999). Food and society in classical antiquity (Key themes in ancient history; Key themes in ancient ...
An ancient temple that belonged to an Old Testament pharaoh is being restored by archaeologists in Egypt. ... food, and provisions from the New Kingdom era." ...