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Sumerians were the first culture to leave the hunting and gathering food and start growing. Like many other inventions that Sumerian culture gave the world, but has also contributed to the food and agriculture. Sumerian food consisted mainly of barley.
The raw material of most food Sumerian was barley, barley cakes and barley paste were the accompaniments of all the great meals. Raw materials of wheat and millet were used in food Sumerian. Agriculture gave fruits and vegetables, chickpeas, lentils, beans, onion, garlic, leeks, cucumbers, watercress, mustard green lettuce and fresh food was part of the early Sumerian. Sumerians were the first culture to settle and leave the old nomadic lifestyle. With the solution began to domesticate animals for food and work. Milk goat meat, eggs, pork, wild birds, deer and deer are part of the food of Sumerian and.
Every day the food was Sumerian probably barley cakes with onions and beans washed down with beer from barley. The fish that swarmed in the rivers of Mesopotamia were an important source for food also. More than fifty different types of fish are first mentioned in texts dating from before 2300 BC and fried fish vendors had a thriving trade in the city of Ur Food stalls also sell onions, cucumbers, freshly grilled goat, lamb and pork. The meat was more popular and common in large cities compared sparsely populated with cities, as it would spoil in the heat. Cattle were slaughtered for consumption only when they were near the end of their working lives.
Information Sumerian about food emerges from archeology and documents written in cuneiform tablets. These sources also indicated the importance of barley and wheat as cakes basic diet, along with grain and vegetable soups, onion, leek, garlic and melons. Besides the vegetable breeding, feeding Sumerian includes also the fruit. These were the apples, figs and grapes. Several culinary herbs and honey and cheese, butter and vegetable oil have also been mentioned in the records food after the Sumerians. Sumerians often drink beer and sometimes wine as well. Food preservation was also developed with salted meats to be and fruits preserved in honey. Several other fruits like apples were dried for preservation and a cause fermentation is also mentioned in the Akkadian texts.
Rice and corn was unknown in ancient Mesopotamia, bringing the flour and barley was the staple Sumerian. His bread was thick, flat and unleavened, though an face was made of finer flour. Parts of this bread is found in the tomb of Queen Puabi of Ur, left, to sustain another life. Were improved bread and butter, milk and cheese, sesame seeds and even fruits and juices. Later records show that the truffle was done. With the advent of irrigation canals and fruit lush vegetable farms with fruit such as blackberries, pears, plums, cherries and pomegranates were found in abundance. The most important food crop in southern Mesopotamia was the date palm. Goats, cows and sheep were domesticated for milk, geese and ducks for eggs and some 50 varieties of fish are a staple food Sumerian. Meats cooked by roasting, broiling, grilling or barbecue and preserved by drying, smoked or salted.
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