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Concept
Breakfast
Summary
Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night. Various "typical" or "traditional" breakfast menus exist, with food choices varying by regions and traditions worldwide.
In Old English, a regular morning meal was called morgenmete, and the word dinner, which originated from Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), referred to a meal after fasting. Around mid-13 century, that meaning of dinner faded away, and around 15th century "breakfast" came into use in written English to describe a morning meal.
Ancient Egyptian cuisine
In Ancient Egypt, peasants ate a daily meal, most likely in the morning, consisting of soup, beer, bread, and onions before they left for work in the fields or work commanded by the pharaohs.
The traditional breakfast believed to have been cooked in ancient Egypt was fūl (made from fava beans, possibly the ancestor of today's ful medames), baladi bread, made from emmer wheat, and falafel, and a mixture of fava beans with onions, garlic, parsley and coriander.
Ancient Greek cuisine
In Greek literature, there are numerous mentions of , a meal taken not long after sunrise. The Iliad notes this meal with regard to a labor-weary woodsman eager for a light repast to start his day, preparing it even as he is aching with exhaustion. The opening prose of the 16th book of the Odyssey mentions breakfast as the meal being prepared in the morning before attending to one's chores. Eventually was moved to around noon, and a new morning meal was introduced.
In the post-Homeric classical period of Greece, a meal called was typically consumed immediately after rising in the morning. (ἀκρατισμός, ) consisted of barley bread dipped in wine (ἄκρατος, ), sometimes complemented by figs or olives. They also made pancakes called (τηγανίτης), (ταγηνίτης). or (ταγηνίας), all words deriving from (τάγηνον), meaning "frying pan". The earliest attested references on are in the works of the 5th century BC poets Cratinus and Magnes.
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