Egyptian Food.

Egyptian bread from the New Kingdom
(Vatican Museum, Rome)

Because Egypt was very dry, and relied mostly on the Nile River to water the crops, people in Egypt could only grow certain kinds of food. Mainly farmers grew wheatand barley.

Egyptian models of clay beer jars
(Louvre Museum, Paris)

The Egyptians made the wheat into bread and into soup and porridge, and they also fermented barley to make beer. In fact, some people think the real reason that the Egyptians first began growing grain was to make beer. This is an Egyptian model of beer jars, which the Egyptians made to put in your grave when you died so you would have beer in the next world.

Model of a butcher shop
(from the Louvre, Paris, France)

The Egyptians also ate meat. You could go to a butcher shop and buy lamb there, just as people do today. Only because it rarely rains in Egypt, they could have the meat outside in the courtyard of the store instead of inside. Here is a model of a butcher shop, also from somebody's grave. Can you see the different cuts of meat all laid out? At the very bottom there is a whole leg of mutton.
But, like other people from the Eastern Mediterranean like the Jews and thePhoenicians, the Egyptians would not eat pigs (bacon or ham or pork or salami) because they thought pigs carried leprosy. They ate beef and mutton and duck and goose.

For dessert, the Egyptians liked to eat dates and figs. This is a picture of some real Egyptian dates which were put into somebody's grave for them to eat in thenext world, and which were preserved in the dry climate for three thousand years until archaeologists dug them up again.

Archaeologists have also found seedswhich show that the Egyptians grew watermelons, and other kinds of melonfashioninn4us.blogspot.com