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In ancient Greece there was coutless varities of food. Everyday basic foods were, bread, olives, olive oils, figs and also local organic cheese that was made from the milk of local farm animals. Wine and ouzo which was an aniseed that made a type of spirt was localy grown. Most of the fruits and vegetables of Greece were from the soil, nearly all of them were grown without any pesticides. The fish and the seafood were caught in the water around the mainland and the individual islands. The Greek climate was warm and great for growing the following: - Olives - Lemons - Eggplants - Zucchini - Beans - Lots of wonderful herbs (mints, basil, garlic and oregano)

These fruits and vegetables were the daily foods that they grew in Greece. The bees pollinated the flowers that made honey that gave the food a sweet flavour. In parts of Greece they had larvar rocks which made it harder to grow.. Foriegh culture had a big influcence on the Greek cuisine. E.g Gyros, which was came from Turkish cuisine, doner karbas were from the Turkish invasion in 1453. Easten influcened in Greek food that came from the time of Alexander the Great. The Pomygranets were the used in early Greek art and was the first fruit that originated from the East. These days pomygrantes are still symboles in Greek festivals like weddings and religious occasions. Food we eat today are quite the same to what the ancient Greek people ate back in the ancient time.

Later on in the ancient Greek times different and more exciting fruit and vegetables were welcomed to the Greek lands. They were welcomed to them by the discovery of the Americans in the 15th Century. Some of these fruit and vegetables were: - Tomatoes - Peppers - Potatoes - Bananas - Lemon - Orange - Eggplants - Rice

__Some Vegetables__ - Arugula - Artichockes - Cabbages - Cardoons - Cos Lettuces (Romaine) - Cucumbers - Fennel - Garlic - Leeks - Squash (marrows) - Radishes - Turnips - Wild celery

__Juicy Fruits__ - Apples - Bergmot oranges - Figs - Graps - Jujubes - Olives - Pears - Plums - Pomygranets - Quinces

__Legumes__ - Beans - Chicken - Lentils - Peas, green and yellow

__Seafood__ - Achoives - Boarfish - Cuttlefish - Eles - Grouper - Octopus - Prawns - Squids - Wrasse

__Meat, Poutry and Game__ - Birds - Chicken - Deer - Donkey - Goat - Goose - Lamb - Pheasnat - Pork