Ancient Egyptian Food

Egyptians didn't eat a lot of meat, but their meat also came from animals that had been domesticated further north in West Asia or Central Asia: mostly beef and lamb. You could go to a butcher shop and buy lamb there, just as people do today, or a duck or goose. 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. In the Old Kingdom, they ate pork, too. From the New Kingdom on, though, most Egyptian people would not eat pork, because they thought pigs were dirty and yucky. Write the first paragraph of your page here.

Here is a model of a butcher shop:



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