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Apart from the prediction that it is based on meat, there is not much information regarding to culinary in prehistoric times.
Later on, cereal started to take place with meat. The archaeological findings also show that the ancient Egyptians have a very careful diet.Even though the common people's diet was based on meat, the families those more affluent had fruit, olives, asparagus, small game birds, fish and honey.
It is believed that the first cookbook was written by the Greek poet Archestarus, who lived in the 4th century BC and in one of his poems named "Gastronomy" , there are descriptions and images like eel cooked in beet leaves. According to rumors, Archestarus has surpassed all the land and seas in order to discover the pleasures of the stomach.After a century, the Greek writer Athenaeus writes about the daily life of the Greeks and gives information about their first eating habits. Athenaeus has recorded in detail the eating and cooking habits, the great chefs and the tools they use.
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