food and drink 
Dina Etkin
What is a farmer’s job/life like?
- Sow fields in November, just after flooding stopped which was usually done in pairs
- One of them would go ahead and scatter seed everywhere, while the other came behind with cattle drawing a plow
- Crops harvested in summer using a wooden sickle (metal blades with short wooden handles)
- After that donkeys were used to transport the crop to the granaries (where food is stored) or to the market place
- What food did they plant and what food/drink did they make?
- Two most important crops are wheat & barley which were used for bread and beer, two of the most common food items
- Also grew vegies such as onions, radishes, peas, beans, cucumbers and lettuce
- For meat they raised and hunted geese, duck, cranes and other wildfowl
- Cows provided milk which was drank or made into cheese
- They also drank wine which was made from grapes grown along the nile valley delta
- How much food do you get to eat?
- Lower class ate simple upper class had choice of wide selection of meals
- Laborer’s meal: fish, bread and water or beer
- Wealthy person: fish, pigeon stew, kidneys, quail, ribs of beef, small round cakes, some cherry like fruit, stewed figs, cheese, and wine and beer to drink
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