Alimentación en el antiguo Egipto

Abstract

The key to the success of the Egyptian civilization was its geographical position on the banks of the Nile, which provided it with resources for agriculture, livestock and fishing. Although the food was diverse and abundant throughout most of the year, it differed between social classes, reserving the best for the elite, such as fruits or meats prepared with spices. The pharaohs gave great importance to gastronomy, using cooking techniques and preservation methods for times of scarcity that are still used today, such as salting, dehydration, pickling, fermentation, maceration, vegetables in vinegar or oil. They are also credited with the use of more than 2000 pharmaceutical recipes to cure diseases, revealing the important knowledge they had about plants.