The Food of Ancient Greece

In this video, we take a look at the food that was eaten by the Ancient Greeks from the age of Homer to the age of Alexander.

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The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Heavy Heart
Temple of the Manes
Teller of the Tales

Sources

[1] Dalby, Andrew and Sarah Granger. "The Classical Cookbook." The British Museum Press, 2012.

Picture Attributions

[cnhnx]

"Welcome to the Barbarian Club, how barbaric are you?"
"I eat butter"
"Understandable Sir, please step right in"

[Meadras]

I used to cook food in Ancient Grease all the time before I quit my job at McDonalds

[edmundironside]

I appreciate your use of references and citations; I wish more youtubers did that

[Lemonidas]

As a Greek myself who hasn't looked into this stuff a lot, I really thank you for this video - and it amazes me how many similarities their cuisine had to the modern stuff we have for food today. Tiganites, loukoumades, souvlaki, and more .... all these things are still present in much the same form.

[RomaniaSon]

This is pure slander. I have lived for 400 years in Romania, and never have I met someone that consumes human blood.

[tanukisan]

As a Greek I can attest to “loukoumades” (Λουκουμάδες) still being very popular and absolutely 😋

[tommy-erhh]

FYI: The toxicity of acorns vary widely, some such the varieties grown in Texas, Spain and Greece have very low toxicity or non toxic.
Others such as acorns of Calif need quite a bit of work to be eatable - although there were almost a million Indians who had them as a staple before the Spanish came.

What a delicious culture, as sweet as their aesthetic

[AlteraLin]

The best feast is getting a Fire of Learning video on a weekend about food of the Ancients. :)

[OscarReyes-udvz]

One of the best videos I have ever seen about ancient food! Thank you for posting this wonder!

[S.J.L]

Kykeon is also thought to have contained a psychedelic, such as mushrooms or ergot. These both can grow on barley. Wine was often combined with various plants, across the ancient world.

[chucknin]

It's not often a high quality Vampire joke is hidden in a Greek culinary essay.

[edwardparkhurst]

Absolutely love this channel it's very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing this with us that watch your channel.

[stevenbennett]

I enjoyed learning cumin was used at dinner tables as we use salt & pepper today. I'll never look at cumin the same way again. Thanks 😊!

Also, I'm impressed by your use as a background @ 13:20 Caspar David Friedrich's Journey into a sea of fog & mists painting. I've loved that painting (& numerous others of his) for years.

Good job on making quality videos!

[EleniKallimorou]

The tiganites still exist, like loukoumades and I remember my farmer grandad eating bread dipped in wine for breakfast to wake himself up, it is traditionally called "krasopsychia", which means "breadcrumb wine". I have been given by my grandma tiganites (with honey) and olives and bread for breakfast too. It amazes me that some things didn't change in thousands of years.

[Pan]

Hello! Having seen your documentaries on England and Germany, I was wondering whether you could do a documentary on the entirety of history of Greece. Your narration and explanation of historical facts was very honourable to the accuracy of events and situations as they had unfolded. Also, the description on your behalf of the peoples in each period was astonishingly detailed! It would be an honour if you made a proper doc for my nation's history. Although it's recorded by everyone, I'd like to see your take and explanation.

[FoothillsPatriot]

My squirrel phase in high school didn’t end until I cracked my tooth on a nut, the fake tooth just couldn’t crack the nuts as well, and I forced to return to humanity

[murrayeaston]

Excellent stuff. Will click on a Fire of Learning video for subjects I usually might not, knowing I'll learn something interesting, presented in an unshowy but engaging, thorough and articulate delivery. As good as they come, thanks for the work.

[PeloquinDavid]

Olives "eaten on their own"...

... but emphatically NOT raw, eaten straight off the tree.

(I tried it ONCE!)

[VYBEKAT]

"Human blood is a delicacy in certain parts or Romania" 😂