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1) Know anything about mizithra cheese??
Mizithra cheese is made from the milk of a sheep. It is white,  fresh, soft, fascile, if my French is any good.

2) What do they eat?
They ate: roast meat including beef, pork, mutton, and goat; fruits and nuts especially grapes, bread made of wheat or barley, green vegetables, olives and olive oil, and wine.

3) In ancient Greece what food often took the place of meat?
Barley was the staple food. Lentils and beans, olives, cheese, and eggs supplemented this.

4) Free time
The Ancient Greek men went to symposiums and festivals. The women just went to festivals except for hetaera and prostitutes who went to symposiums as entertainment.

5) Who prepared the food in acient greece
Men tended to prepare meat while women prepared bread. But most cooking was done by women.

6) What different types of food did the greeks eat in the early days?
Homer describes food in his poems but mainly it involved roast meat on flat bread with vegetables and fruit.

7) How does greek food differ from other cultures foods?
A culture's food often depends on what grows in the vicinity of that culture. Grapes and olives grew in Greece so they are important to the Greek food.

8) What were dishes and utensils like.
Mainly they were given a piece of flat bread and their food was placed on that. Wine was drunk in a footed cup made of ceramic.

9) What kind of restaurants, if there were any, existed in ancient greece?
Most business people had their business right in their home. Though there were no restaurants in our sense there were plenty of homes you could go to buy a meal. 

10)What were dishes and utensils like?
Greek pottery is very important artistically. But usually they did not use pottery at meals. Each diner was given a piece of flat bread and then a piece of meat on the bread. Most food was eaten with the fingers. Knives were used to cut the meat:

 

Cooks used more implements:  Grain was gound between two flat stones, one on top of the other

 

11) in ancient greece was food grown in fields or in gardens?
Though there were many gardens, still there were many fields as well.

12) Type of food prepared
Fish was a favorite food, and they ate beef and land roasted. They drank wine and had various fruits including grapes, figs, and quinces. They ate green vegetables as well.

13) What kind of everyday food did the ancient greeks eat?
Barley bread, fish, fruit, olives, vegetables.

14) What was the marketplace called?
Most markets were in the Agora, but not all of them. There were also deigmata or specialized market halls. The Agora was like a market square in the Greek city.

15) What did they cook with?
Meat was roasted over an open fire. Bread was baked in an oven. Metal pans were available for roasting and frying over an open fire?

16) How was the cooking done? What were the ovens like? Clay, stone? Used for baking, roasting? Was most cooking done on an open fire?
Most cooking was done on an open fire. For most meats a spit was braced over the fire and turned. Some vegetables were cooked this way, but most were boiled in metal or clay pots. Fish was pan fried in a metal or clay pan. Bread was baked in a beehive oven made of bricks or clay. The fire was made in the oven then the coals were removed. The heat of the oven baked the bread. Some bread was also baked in flat pans.

 

 

 

 

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