Food and Drink

Kyler Chen

How did they sow and harvest?

• They sowed in November after the flooding of the Nile
• One person was behind a cattle pulling a plow
• Other person was in front, scattering wheat and barley seed
• Usually the whole family harvested
• Used wooden sickles to harvest
• Afterwards, donkeys brought crops to granaries or marketplaces

What did the Egyptians harvest and kill for food?

• Crops-Wheat, barley, onions, radishes, peas, beans, cucumbers, lettuce
• Meat- cattle, geese, ducks, cranes, other wildfowl, cows/milk/cheese, pork (which was forbidden to be eaten), fish, grapes
• Wheat and barley was made into beer and bread, grapes were made into wine

How were the Lower Class foods and the Upper Class foods different?

• Lower Class people ate simpler meals-
• Vegetables, fish, bread, water, and beer
• Upper Class people had more to choose from-
• Fish, pigeon stew, kidneys, quail, ribs of beef, bread rolls, small round cakes, cherry-like fruit, stewed figs, cheese, and for drink, wine or beer.

 

 

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