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Ancient Greek Food: Olives

Today, you go to the store and buy a littlethem with a knife. They, oil would come forth
container of olives. You can get them in allfrom the olives but this was just used to
different shapes sizes colors, and more. Youhelp preserve them. They were then kept in
can buy them with pimentos in them or not.wine,  vinegar,  and  salty  water.
Many wonder how this food became such an
important part of Greek culture and largeOlive oil was created to help preserve the
part  of  their  diet.olives. Olive oil was a great source of the
Ancient people's diet because it was their
Ancient Greeks used olives as there mainmain source of fat. You might think that fish
source of fat instead of meat from animalwas a main source of their diet, but these
because they thought it was an unhealthy waythings were very expensive so common people
of getting fat, since the barbarians (nonmainly just had olive oil. It is not as it is
Greeks) ate that way. In actuality, thetoday where people eat a large variety of
barbarians ate meat and their products suchfood no matter who they are. Ancient Greece
as milk and cheese because they were nomadicwas  a  very  socially  unequal  place.
and had no way of growing an olive tree or
preparing  olives  if  they  saw  any.If you ever dip bread in olive oil, you are
carrying out the actions of an aristocratic
Preserving olives was possible because theremeal. In ancient times, common Greeks mostly
was salt everywhere! Since Ancient Greece wasate porridge and not bread for carbohydrates.
a huge island basically, salt was easilyBread was a lot of work to make and was not a
accessible and allowed them to preservecommon  food  among  them.
olives  with  ease.
Today, olives are eaten by anyone who has a
To preserve their olives, first ancientfew bucks and can walk or drive to a store.
Greeks would gather them while they where notNot so in the days of past. Still, ancient
ripe. They left them in eater that theyGreeks still figured they could turn tiny
changed every 12 hours with water thatstrange spherical objects on a tree into a
contains wood ash and then again cleared thedelicious and nutritious food for all of the
water. It might have taken a week. ToMediterranean.
decrease the time sometimes they would cut



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