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It's for certain that the Kememu, like everyone else, enjoyed a good meal as well as a good drink to wash it down. But where you were on the socio-economic ladder determined just how much and how well you would eat or drink ( a sampling )...
Poor Folk's Diet Fish - usually smoked or dried Bread (lots of it!) - leavened barley or wheat Beer - usually the barley brew (booza) Garlic Onions - Part of the payment to the workers who built the great pyramids was in Garlic and Onions. Leeks Other home grown veggies (eg, watermelon, beans, peas, cucumbers...)
Rich Folk's Diet Barbecue Beer - several varieties Wine - both white and red; imported as well as domestic Beef Fish Goat and Mutton Antelope Pork (for those not socially restrained from eating) Goose Duck Pigeon Watermelon Figs Dates Pomegranates Yellow Peas Luba Beans Black-Eyed Peas
Other Foods Pancakes Pastries Fruit puree Syrups Honey Honey Cake Milk
...
--While on the subject of food, here's a good book to have:
The African Cookbook; Taste of a Continent, by Jessica B. Harris, Simon & Schuster
Pork, amongst many other things, was forbidden to the priests and also to the Initiates in the Mysteries. Pork was generally considered unhealthy (e.g., it could kill you!), and by association, pig farmers were forbidden from the temples. They were also compelled to marry within their own group, as no outsider would marry one. Regardless, there's plenty of surviving evidence (e.g., bones) which suggests that there was a lot of pork chops *chopped! (Kinda like the Japanese eating the fugu fish...it may kill you but it tastes soooo good!) *chop: a Ghanaian expression meaning "to eat."
quote: There were also some forms of (Ancient Egyptian) pastry; pastry cooks were called "workers in dates," a term that refers to the use of the date as a sweetener." The African Cookbook; Taste of a Continent, by Jessica B. Harris, Simon & Schuster; p7
This referenced book also contains several recipes for Egyptian dishes, some of which are traditional and predate both the Islamic and Ottoman periods. Here's a sampling: (items in parenthesis are my comments)
quote: Dinner with the Pharaohs Karkadeh (Egyptian; Senegalese; Caribbean beverage) Ful Medames (pre-Islamic Egyptian style beans) Flat bread Qahawah bel Habahan (Cardoman coffee; non-traditional) You don't have to dress in thin cotton and wear cones of perfumed tallow on your head, but perhaps you might want to decorate the table with pyramids and photographs of Egyptian temples. Listen to the music of Ali Hassan Kuban or Mohamed Mounir, musicians who hark from the Nubian region of southern Egypt --p359
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You can also add Fori Gras to this list.Mural on a sarcophagus dating back to 2390 B.C. near Memphis pyramids, shows geese being force feed pellets of grain to make their livers fat.
So the Kemetians (ancient Egyptians) were the first to develop this sumptuous delicacy.
Source, page 254 The Soul of A New Cuisine: A Discovery Of The Foods & Flavors of Africa by Marcus Samuelsson .
Also last week, on ABC late night news, that said the same thing about the Egyptians coming up with what is now called Foie Gras !
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quote:Originally posted by Nebsen: You can also add Fori Gras to this list.Mural on a sarcophagus dating back to 2390 B.C. near Memphis pyramids, shows geese being force feed pellets of grain to make their livers fat.
So the Kemetians (ancient Egyptians) were the first to develop this sumptuous delicacy.
Source, page 254 The Soul of A New Cuisine: A Discovery Of The Foods & Flavors of Africa by Marcus Samuelsson .
Also last week, on ABC late night news, that said the same thing about the Egyptians coming up with what is now called Foie Gras !
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It's for certain that the Kememu, like everyone else, enjoyed a good meal as well as a good drink to wash it down. But where you were on the socio-economic ladder determined just how much and how well you would eat or drink ( a sampling )...
Poor Folk's Diet
Fish - usually smoked or dried Bread (lots of it!) - leavened barley or wheat Beer - usually the barley brew (booza) Garlic Onions - Part of the payment to the workers who built the great pyramids was in Garlic and Onions. Leeks Other home grown veggies (eg, watermelon, beans, peas, cucumbers...)
Rich Folk's Diet
Barbecue Beer - several varieties Wine - both white and red; imported as well as domestic Beef Fish Goat and Mutton Antelope Pork (for those not socially restrained from eating) Goose Goose liver - Foie gras (pate de foie gras) Duck Pigeon Watermelon Figs Dates Pomegranates Yellow Peas Luba Beans Black-Eyed Peas
Other Foods
Pancakes Pastries Fruit puree Syrups Honey Honey Cake Milk
...
--While on the subject of food, here's a good book to have:
The African Cookbook; Taste of a Continent, by Jessica B. Harris, Simon & Schuster
Pork, amongst many other things, was forbidden to the priests and also to the Initiates in the Mysteries. Pork was generally considered unhealthy (e.g., it could kill you!), and by association, pig farmers were forbidden from the temples. They were also compelled to marry within their own group, as no outsider would marry one. Regardless, there's plenty of surviving evidence (e.g., bones) which suggests that there was a lot of pork chops *chopped! (Kinda like the Japanese eating the fugu fish...it may kill you but it tastes soooo good!) *chop: a Ghanaian expression meaning "to eat."
quote: There were also some forms of (Ancient Egyptian) pastry; pastry cooks were called "workers in dates," a term that refers to the use of the date as a sweetener." The African Cookbook; Taste of a Continent, by Jessica B. Harris, Simon & Schuster; p7
This referenced book also contains several recipes for Egyptian dishes, some of which are traditional and predate both the Islamic and Ottoman periods. Here's a sampling: (items in parenthesis are my comments)
quote: Dinner with the Pharaohs Karkadeh (Egyptian; Senegalese; Caribbean beverage) Ful Medames (pre-Islamic Egyptian style beans) Flat bread Qahawah bel Habahan (Cardoman coffee; non-traditional) You don't have to dress in thin cotton and wear cones of perfumed tallow on your head, but perhaps you might want to decorate the table with pyramids and photographs of Egyptian temples. Listen to the music of Ali Hassan Kuban or Mohamed Mounir, musicians who hark from the Nubian region of southern Egypt --p359
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