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Palæoboreanic Food
Introduction
Palæoboreanic diet, cuisine, and food-getting strategies were surprisingly modern. Boreans planted crops, and hunted, fished, and trapped various animals for food.
Diet
For more information, see Palæoboreanic Diet.
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Animals — ancient Boreans consumed meat, eggs, dairy, and honey.
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Fungi — ancient Boreans ate a variety of mushrooms, and like later H. sapiens used yeast to produce ethanol.
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Plants — made up the bulk of the Borean diet. Grains, roots, tubers, leaves, fruits, and various other plant parts of numerous species were consumed.
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Food-getting
For more information see Food-getting Strategies
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Horticulture — most Borean households practiced some form of substistance farming and many small communities kept limited crops and community gardens. However, large-scale agriculture was unknown to the ancient Borean peoples.
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Hunting —
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Trapping —
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Fishing —
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Cuisine
For more information, see ancient Borean cuisine.
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Meats — cuts of freshly butchered and cooked meat were occasionally served as the entrée of a meal, particularly for exceptionally wealthy individuals, however the majority of meat consumed by Boreans would have been in the form of smoked jerky, or prepared by boiling dried meat for pottage.
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Bread & Cereals — numerous references exist in the recovered writings of the Palæoboreanic to various kinds of bread.
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Pottage — the ancient Boreans made many different types of soup, stew, pottage, chowder, gruel, and porridge.
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Beverages — the Palæoboreanic people made both tea and coffee, as well as fruit juices (though without modern preservation techniques, these were often served fresh-squeezed). Various forms of vegetable juice were also consumed. Additionally, the Palæoboreanics had learned how to produce a number of alcoholic beverages: mead was by far the most common, however beers, wines, and even some other stronger spirits were occasionally produced.
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Cutlery —
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