African Food for Kids
Wheat bread
Before people began farming, African hunters and gatherers ate mainly wild vegetables (roots and leaves), with some meat and fish and seafood and eggs. They also harvested some wild grain to eat. They got a lot of their fat from palm oil.
Around 6000 BC, as the climate changed and the Sahara Desert gradually took over the grasslands, it got harder to get food and so some African people began to farm some of their food. In North Africa and Egypt, people farmed the wheat and barley that had already been domesticated in West Asia. So these people began to eat mainly pita bread and porridge and barley soups, like the people of West Asia. The Egyptians also made their barley into beer.
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About the same time, these people also began herding sheep and goats and cattle, also imported from West Asia. North Africans also fished, especially for tuna.
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Food
and Recipes of Africa (Kids in the Kitchen.) by Theresa M. Beatty
The
People of Africa and Their Food (Multicultural Cookbooks)
by Ann Burckhardt
A Taste of West Africa (Food Around the World) by Colin Harris
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