Judging by the diets of my Lebanese friends, many of these practices continue today. Ping!
Given this list, why do I so often hear that any consumption of alcohol is sinful and that the tea-totalers\anti-alcohol\no drinking religious movement is a big part of this.
Of note: I noticed in Germany that even Evangelical Christians enjoyed beer and wine like Germans tend to do. None of them drunkards, but none thought drinking beer and wine or even spirits to be evil or sinful in any way.
That seems to be an American thing.
Good article, thanks for posting
Is it time to go kosher?
Msgr Pope did a lovely job today! I really enjoyed this study.
Once I ate friend locusts.
It was honestly not bad. They were soaked in a brine first, had the legs and head cut off, and tasted a bit like a shrimp popper.
Which proves little other than a teenage boy will eat anything presented to him.
No Peanut Butter!
I think they generally drank wine diluted with water, because of widespread pollution of their water. The wine’s alcohol killed the bacteria in the polluted water. One could drink a lot of diluted wine before one became drunk.
The Puritans in New England drank beer for the same reason. It was common for their water to be polluted.
Life in Irael in 30 AD. Third of a series that Msgr Pope is writing on life in Israel at the time of Jesus.
Very interesting! Thanks for posting this.
Locusts? Bugs are not Kosher, are they?
Wine and beer effectively kill off bacteria and have always been common as everyday drink.
In the colonies people, including children, drank apple cider with about 5% alcohol content. This was the rule until the Germans came in with their lagers which were much better and they became the drink of choice.
Which gives a new meaning to Johnny Appleseed’s quest to plant more apple trees.
One of the oddities in the prepper universe is that they buy all kinds of high tech water filters but don’t seem to know how to go about making wine and beer.
What NO TWINKIES? I think the Wookie would approve, I think.
By the way, some of the more common presses used for making apple cider are the ones from Harbor Freight. The six ton is about 70 bucks and the 12 ton goes for 130.
I own a 12 ton and they work. A lot of businesses use them.
ping
The food was more scarce and less convenient than today. >>
that’s a super understatement for sure.
beans and lentils came first on the list. >>
didn’t esau give up his inheritance over a big bowl of lentils??? that would have been me, I love them.
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probably came from India via Persian merchants, since chickens are descendants of Jungle Fowls..........
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