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The great story teller Homer wrote a store called Odyssey. In this story which is dated to be told from 1200 B.C.. Homer talks about food in this story he gives reference to cereals, olive oil, meats, and fruits.
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Milk was used very differently in ancient Greece. It's a big part of our diet nowadays, but in the past it was barely used for cooking. They mostly used goats milk for medicine. It was seen as barbaric to drink a lot of milk.
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Around 625 B.C. Greece started raising their own domesticated chickens. They started trading with Asia Minor which introduced them to many new exports. They even expanded their trade routes.
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Olives were an essential part of the Athenian diet. They had many uses of olives. Such as olive oil, perfumes, and more cooking methods. It was so popular they had a surplus of olives in Greece that they had to make a law about exports.
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In Athens they held great big parties for men of respected families. There would be food and drinks. The men would debate, sing, and plot. Evidence says they would get so drunk some of them would end up naked. Many of these symposiums were used for politics.
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In fifth century BC wine was super popular in Athens. Athenians threw big social parties all the time. They used wine to be more social at the parties. Many people of wealth often through big extravagant parties. The parties were also known as symposiums. Which basically was a large drinking party.
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The poet Magnes talks about the breakfast food he saw on tables in that period of time. He talks about bread being dipped in wine then topped with olives. Those three are truly the trinity diet of the Athenians. He also talks about pancakes being made on early style frying pans.
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Around 400 B.C. rice came into the Egyptian diet. They were trading with India to get rice. We have no idea when rice came to Greece but we know they were trading with India around the same time as Egypt which means they should've got rice in their diet through trading with India.
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When 4th century B.C. started bakers came to Greece. This allowed Greece to really push bread as a big component of their diet. A lot of the bakers sold the bread on the street markets. The popular rise of bread made trade with our countries thrive as bread required a lot of wheat for flour.
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Pythagoras had a philosophy called orphism. He said eating meat was almost like eating flesh which he saw as cannabilism. From this philosophy he indirectly started vegetarianism. Which is a lifestyle still around today.
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