Posted on 05/04/2019 7:41:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In a land flowing with milk and honey, what kinds of food made up the ancient Jewish diet? What did people eat and drink in Roman Palestine?
Susan Weingarten guides readers through a menu of the first millennium C.E. in her article "Biblical Archaeology 101: The Ancient Diet of Roman Palestine," published in the March/April 2019 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Although it is difficult to reconstruct the diet of the average person in Palestine during the Roman and Late Antique periods, Weingarten, as both a food historian and an archaeologist, is well equipped for the task. Using archaeological remains and ancient texts, such as the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmuds, she pieces together the ancient Jewish diet.
A passage of the Mishnah details the minimum diet for a woman, who is separated from her husband: "Not less than two qabs of wheat or four qabs of barley [a week] … He must also give her half a qab of pulse and half a log of oil and a qab of dried figs or a mina of fig-cake, and if he has none of these, he must give her other produce instead." This passage shows that the ancient Jewish diet included grains, pulses (e.g., beans, peas, chickpeas, and lentils), oil, and figs...
From this passage, we also see that grains comprise the majority of the woman's food. In fact, scholars estimate that bread made up 50–75 percent of the average person's diet. It was the food staple of the ancient world.
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I used carob powder in baking for many years when my children were little.
I had no idea locust bean and carob bean were the same thing. “Locust bean gum” is listed as an ingredient in food products such as ice cream.
“Here’s your ****in’ canoe!” [/punchline]
This is exactly why I don't cook very much. Does the chili recipe call for a qab of ghost pepper or a mina? Makes a big difference, you know. And just try to find a set of measuring spoons...
Buffalo chips, won’t ya fire up tonight, fire up tonight, fire up tonight...
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ezekiel+4:9+bread&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&gbv=1
It makes a nice ‘chocolate’ milk and brownies, too.
It’s probably for a similar reason that they also use seaweeds in ice cream:
http://www.molecularrecipes.com/hydrocolloid-guide/locust-bean-gum-lbg/
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