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 Comments are closed.
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