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Sumerian Food… continued from last week
October 27th, 2008 by admin
Information about Sumerian food can be gathered from archaeology and written records on cuneiform tablets. These sources also indicated the importance of barley and wheat cakes as the staple diet together with grain and legume soups, onion, leeks, garlic and chate melon. Besides farmed vegetables, Sumerian food also included fruits. These were apples, fig and [...]
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Sumerian Food
October 20th, 2008 by admin
Sumerians were the first culture to quit hunting and gathering food and begin cultivation. Like many other inventions that Sumerian culture gave to the world, they also contributed in farming and food. Sumerian food consisted mainly of barley.
The raw material of most of Sumerian food was barley; barley cakes and barley paste were accompaniments of [...]
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