GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Olive Oil, Field System, Lifestyle Food
26 Nov 2015
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Progression of technology --> today: tools created to help cultivate food, bronze, copper, tin, iron --> able to start forging tools. Storage pits allowed for prolonged life of products. Food was grown domestically --> milk from domesticated cows. Processed food was not used in earlier years. Pre-modern humans are primarily omnivores; little meat in the diet at all. Wine was used much more frequently in the past; wasn"t a luxury item; snail and fried grasshoppers were. Paiwari: spit of women as they chewed manioc (poisonous plant) Egyptians: tombs shows upper class having large and elaborate meals: many meats, poultry dishes, butter, milk, dates, figs, wine, breads and cakes etc. Greeks: spartans felt that over-eating was a vice and impaired military prowess: staple for peasants was barley cake and porridge; eggs, cheeses, olive oil, goats milk, athenians: food was much less important that art and philosophy. Pork was the main meat substance; lower class had eggs.
