Egyptian+Foods+and+Feasts

Do you want to know about the foods they ate in egypt during the pharaoh times?
Some of the foods they ate are chicken, fowl, and they love geese, beer, and bread. They loved to eat bread and with that bread...beer. The women in ancient Egypt made the beer with their bare hands to crush the plants, hops and grain. Every night when they had a big feast they would have beer for a drink or just for when they were thirsty. The women would serve the beer to the men. Honey was the primary source of sweetner in ancient Egypt. As a result, bee keeping was common. Cattle-The meat, fat, blood, milk, hide, bone, sinew, dung, and horn of cattle were used by Egyptians for a variety of uses.They were especially fond of beef, and often buried the meat in the ground so the mummy could enjoy it in the afterlife.Beef was eaten primarly by the wealthy.They eat loaves of bread of coarse grain which they call cyllestis. They make their beverage from barley, for they have no vines in their country.They eat fish raw, sun-dried or preserved in salt brine. Herodotus, Histories 2,77 Meat was not eaten often by the fellahin [4]. Growing domesticated animals for the sole purpose of meat production was (and still is) expensive. People sometimes supplemented their diet by hunting and fowling and by gathering wild fruit and roots. In the Tale of Sinuhe the protagonist, who had become a tribal chief, recounts: "Loaves were made for me daily, and wine as daily fare, cooked meat, roast fowl, as well as desert game. For they snared for me and laid it before me, in addition to the catch of my hounds. Many sweets were made for me, and milk dishes of all kinds." Tale of Sinuhe. By Bronte Rotter