Museum Entrance Welcome to the Lobby The ancient Greeks ate
healthy food The ancient Greeks grew a variety of food The a ancien
t Greeks had many ways to cook their food Ancient Greeks Food Visit
the Curator Slide 2 Name of Museum Safa Danesh Making this museum
was very interesting because I got to learn all about why the
ancient Greeks ate the food they ate! I hope that you enjoy your
tour of this museum! Thanks for coming!!!! Back to Lobby Ancient
Greeks Food Slide 3 Name of Museum The ancient Greeks ate healthy
food Ancient Greeks Food Slide 4 Name of Museum The ancient Greeks
grew a variety of food Ancient Greeks Food Slide 5 Name of Museum
The ancient Greeks had many ways to cook their food Ancient Greeks
Food Slide 6 Name of Museum The ancient Greeks used a clay oven to
make and or heat up their food, but was most commonly used for
making bread. Only wealthier people in ancient Greece could afford
to make their own bread with real wheat. Poorer people had to buy
their bread instead of making their own bread, and the bread they
bought was made with barley instead of wheat. Before they put the
kneaded dough in the oven the ancient Greeks would heat the oven in
advance with sticks of wood. Clay Ovens Back to Room 1 Slide 7 Name
of Museum Bread and Olive Oil Back to Room 1 A lot of people in
ancient Greece ate bread and olive oil because they were the few
crops that grew well enough to harvest and then eat. The ancient
Greeks also ate a lot of grapes (grapes were also another crop that
grew well in the stony soil of ancient Greece). Because there were
so many grapes, the Greeks turned them into wine. The Greeks only
drank wine when it was watered down. People thought that drinking
wine with no water was barbaric. The ancient Greeks also ate wild
lettuce, wild onions, and wild garlic. Slide 8 Name of Museum In
ancient Greece almost everyone ate fish. It was extremely easy to
catch since Greece is a peninsula (meaning that it has three sides
of water surrounding it). Sailors from the Greek islands would
bring fish back to the middle of Greece(where there wasn't a lot of
water to catch fish) and trade with other people for it. Since
fresh fish was expensive poorer people would buy dried or salted
fish. Ancient Greeks would also eat dried or smoked fish with
bread, boiled eggs, and goat cheese for lunch. Dried Fish Back to
Room 1 Slide 9 Name of Museum The ancient Greeks thought that it
was wrong to raise an animal and then slaughter and eat it. So when
they ate meat it had to be fresh meat, sacrificed to a god, and had
to be hunted in the wild. Only the wealthiest people in ancient
Greece could afford to buy and eat meat. The poorer people who
couldn't afford it caught rabbits, deer,swans,ducks,and owls
instead. Meat Back to Room 1 Slide 10 Name of Museum The ancient
Greeks grew olives, grapes, figs, and wheat, and also kept goats
for milk. The Greeks turned the olives into olive oil and usually
ate it with bread. Grapes were turned into wine and were also eaten
by themselves. Figs were usually eaten as a dessert. Wheat was
usually used to make bread. Olives Back to Room 2 Slide 11 Name of
Museum Ancient Greeks used barley for bread, as a type of flour,
and also as a porridge. Poorer people who couldn't grow or afford
wheat substituted it with barley. Barley is a cereal grain and
wheat is a cereal plant, so using barley as a substitute for wheat
did not really change the taste of the recipes where wheat was
substituted. Barley Back to Room 2 Slide 12 Name of Museum The
ancient Greeks would plant fresh vegetables, and fruits such as:
peas, beans, turnips, garlic, onions, pomegranates, dates, grapes,
and melons. These crops were the few that grew well in the stony
soil of ancient Greece. In the winter months the ancient Greeks ate
food that were harvested food in the fall and then carefully stored
away. The foods that were harvested in the fall were apples,
chestnuts, lentils, and goat cheese. Grapes Back to Room 2 Slide 13
Name of Museum A very popular way to cook your food in ancient
Greece was to put the food under hot coals(this is kind of like a
barbeque that we use today),or use a fire to cook the food. Since
Greece is very mountainous and rocky, the Greeks would build a fire
pit with stones they found outside of their homes. Stone Fire pit
Back to Room 3 Slide 14 Name of Museum The ancient Greeks also used
a spit to cook their food as well (a spit is a piece of equipment
used to help people cook their food over a fire, or hot charcoals).
They also used boiled their food over a fire (they didn't boil
their food any different than how we boil our food except for the
fact that we dont boil our food over a fire like they did). Boiled
Corn Back to Room 3 Slide 15 Name of Museum A lot of people also
fried (they didn't fry their food in a deep fryer, like we
sometimes do now. Instead they used a pan and cooked their food
over a fire), and simmered their food (the ancient Greeks simmered
their food by cooking their food in a pan over hot charcoals).
Simmered food Back to Room 3
