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| Ancient Greek Food: Olives |
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| By georgechristodoulou88@msn.com |
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Today, you go to the store and buy a little container of olives. You
can get them in all different shapes sizes colors, and more. You can
buy them with pimentos in them or not. Many wonder how this food became
such an important part of Greek culture and large part of their diet.
Ancient
Greeks used olives as there main source of fat instead of meat from
animal because they thought it was an unhealthy way of getting fat,
since the barbarians (non Greeks) ate that way. In actuality, the
barbarians ate meat and their products such as milk and cheese because
they were nomadic and had no way of growing an olive tree or preparing
olives if they saw any.
Preserving olives was possible because
there was salt everywhere! Since Ancient Greece was a huge island
basically, salt was easily accessible and allowed them to preserve
olives with ease.
To preserve their olives, first ancient Greeks
would gather them while they where not ripe. They left them in eater
that they changed every 12 hours with water that contains wood ash and
then again cleared the water. It might have taken a week. To decrease
the time sometimes they would cut them with a knife. They, oil would
come forth from the olives but this was just used to help preserve
them. They were then kept in wine, vinegar, and salty water.
Olive
oil was created to help preserve the olives. Olive oil was a great
source of the Ancient people |
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About the Author: George Christodoulou,
If you have any more questions about ancient greek food
or you would like to read more about ancient greek food
please visit, http://ancientgreekfood.net for more information.
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