Thank you for taking many peeks into my blog! Unfortunately, this is the last blog post that you will be reading :(. I hope you enjoyed reading and learning from my blog posts. I loved writing and filling your brains with a hole lot of info! Greeks were very good farmers and they only got to work with a very small space. I feel that that is truly amazing! Greeks worked really hard to get great food. Only 20% of Greece was farming land. Greece had very small places to farm, which made it hard to create food for all the population. But they did it! As you know, they made many things. Olives and Grapes were the most famous Greek food. I feel that it is also really hard to not have cows for fertilizer on a farm. Greeks' didn't even have cows because cows had to graze and they could not graze on hills. Greeks' had many of other animals that they used for transportation, meat and dairy. The goats were the only way to get dairy, and that was a main part in Greece farming. Besides dairy foods, they made cake, olives, grapes and bread. Overall, Greeks were great farmers for the small amount of space they had. Thank you so much for reading all of my blog, and I plan on adding to this in the future! Bye!! As you know, the Greeks sure loved their food! But they really had to work hard to produce it! Greece was not a great place for farming. Most of Greece was extremely mountainous and hilly, and even the flat plains and valleys were rocky. In fact, only about 20% of Greece could be farmed. And much of that 20% was hillside, which required terrace farming. The Greeks had to make what looked like stairs into their mountainous land to create a flat area. The soil was poor and water was scarce. There were no major rivers flowing through Greece and it only rained in the winter. But the Greeks made the best of it! Because of the small amount of land that they had, they had to produce food that did not take up so much space. They grew fruit and nut trees, olives and grapes. They grew some wheat and barely too, but in order to get enough for their population they had to import it from other places. Greek farming had a lot of animals. Greeks could not have cattle because cows require large, flat places to graze. However, they had chickens, goats, sheep, oxen, mules, donkeys and pigs. The chickens and pigs were used for food, while the oxen, mules and donkeys were used for transportation. Sheep and goats were the most important because they provided clothing and dairy, which were very important for the Greeks. Next time you are having an amazing Greek meal, imagine how hard it would be to get that food in ancient times! But I am sure glad they made the effort! If you want to learn more about the geography of Greek food click here: History Alive! The Ancient World Chapter 25.3 http://historylink101.com/2/greece3/climate-geography.htm Welcome back to my blog! Today you will be reading about the food restrictions and where the Greeks got their food! Don't worry, if you get hungry just go get the Greeks foods that were easily made in the rocky land of Greece's landscape. Don't worry, if you get hungry, just go get the Greek's foods that were easily made in the rocky land of Greeks landscape. Greeks raised their food in their bumpy terrain. All the Greeks food was created in their land, either in farms, houses or outside anywhere. Greece had a great climate and rich soil and anything would grow as long as it could be watered. In 50o BCE, changes began in the Greek food culture. Vegetables and fruit became more available while meat became a much less important of the Greek diet. Meat and especially beef became extremely expensive, so it was barely ever eaten. A lot of things in the Greek diet became barbaric. It was considered brutal to drink wine if it was not watered down and to drink milk because it was rarely drunk. Greeks eating habits were very different from us. They did not have utensils, so they ate with their bare hands. Greeks also used bread to scoop out big and thick soups. Bread could of also been used as a napkin in the Greek food culture. After it was used as a napkin, it was thrown on the ground for animals and slaves to pick it up. That would be very disrespectful in our culture, but it their culture it was nothing. Another interesting thing that Greeks did was that Men usually only gathered the dinner parties. Doesn't your mom usually make the parties happen and make your friends come over? Well not in Greece, having guests in the house was a "male-only" affair. However, women were not even permitted to attend. The Greeks were surely different from us. Join me for my next blog, and take a look at these websites that I used for my blog post today. For a bigger website that has every single food individually look at http://www.hoplites.org/FOOD.pdf and for a small website that has tons of information look at http://historylink101.com/2/greece3/food.htm Welcome back! Thank you for taking a peek into my blog! I have been researching a lot about Greek food, and I bet you know this, but they love to eat. You better not be going into their fridges and stealing their food. Luckily, the Greek diet was extremely healthy.
The Greeks had a very healthy diet that contained grains like wheat and barley, fruit like grapes and figs, and vegetables like olives, green beens, lentils and chick peas. Greeks grew their own foods, and they either ate them or made things out of them. For example, the Greeks grew their own olives and made olive oil. They also grew grapes and made their own wine out of them. The Greeks also ate animal products such as meat and fish. However, the Greeks only ate meat on special occasions such as holidays. Greeks were very different from us today. They had to grow their own foods and they did not have supermarkets. Greeks were farmers and they grew things in there farms. They had grape vines and olive trees to grow there food. Their other fruits and vegetables were grown from trees, bushes, and vines as well. The Greeks kept animals like goats for dairy and cheese and animals for their meat. They mostly kept animals for milk and cheese, but occasionally killed animals for meat. However, the Greeks did not usually eat meat. They only ate it on holidays, which Socrates agreed with. Join me in my next post as I will talk to you about the religious restrictions of the Greek food. To learn more about the types of food that Greeks ate, look at the website that I used for this post: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/food/greekfood.htm Hello my fellow Greek food lovers. Thanks for taking a peek into my blog! My name is Drew. I go to a private school in L.A, love sports and of course LOVE FOOD, especially love Greek food. Ever since i have been a baby, I have loved food and I have always loved to try new and interesting foods. I encourage you to try Greek foods. Below I have a video of a famous Greek food called Delian Sweets. Greek food is all basic foods like grapes, olives, beans, and then from those food the Greeks would make things like wine and meats that they could eat. I plan on blogging about Greek food interests and important foods in Greek culture. I will focus on types of food that the Greeks ate, where they got their food, food religion and food restrictions. This blog will be fun and exciting as the time goes by. I hope you plan on checking in with this blog, and reading and learning about Greek food.
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