A Good Friday challenge

[gofish]

Some years ago I read a flyer at church that said on Good Friday eat what Jesus might have had for breakfast.I have not done it but this year I think I will.

I thinking about coming up with reciepes for the day that use foods mentioned in the bible.

 

 

I'm not fond of fish and HATE lentiles.

Crickets, grasshoppers and locusts are out.I'm just not going there.

Ibex, antelope, and gezelle would be a little hard to find. Meat was seldom used anyway.

 

They used bread as silverware.

I'm thinking yogert, dates, figs, olives and nuts and some sort of porridge and a stew.

 

 

 

What would do?

 

 

 

http://www.allaboutthebible.net/daily-life/food/

 

 

http://christianity.about.com/od/biblefactsandlists/qt/foodsofthebible.htm

 

 

http://www.sundayschoolresources.com/food.htm

[HazelStone]

Grasshoppers aren't all that bad actually. Had 'em in Oaxaca. As I told my classmates, "If they were good enough for John the Baptist they are good enough for you."

 

Besides, doesn't this just look YUMMY?!

 

[CoM]

I doubt that Jesus ate anything on Good Fri morning as he was in prison. I don't think He would have wanted to eat knowing what lay ahead that day.

[gofish]

What I'm looking for is more of a history lesson with food. What would be the typical food eaten then? More like taking a trip to Israel now and viewing the places that Jesus might have been at.I want to read the bible with the kids and to bring to life a little piece of what it was like living at that time.

 

A lot of poeple now do a big Easter dinner and I do that too.Let's face it alot of pagen things have become part of of our traditions to the point where it hard to sort them out.

I'm looking for someting more then a coconut mashmellow bunny cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND I"M STILL NOT DOING BUGS!

[themartianchick]

A college anthropology department/student might be able to help.

 

Apparently, someone else has written a couple of books about this topic. One is a cookbook:

 

http://www.post-gazette.com/food/20031113jesusfood1113fnp2.asp

 

 

Because Jesus was a Jew, Colbert says, he would have followed Old Testament dietary laws -- for instance, laws governing clean and unclean animals and fish. These laws were specific: cattle, sheep and goats were allowed; hogs were not. Fish with fins and scales were allowed; catfish, crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), mollusks (clams, mussels) and others were not.

 

As Colbert says, Jesus would not have eaten an Easter ham.

 

Colbert also assesses Jesus' culture and decides what he would have eaten based on what was available. Fish was widely available; beef was saved for special occasions, such as the prodigal son's return. So, Colbert says, Jesus probably ate fish on a daily basis but beef not more than once a month. Other staples in Jesus' diet, according to Colbert's assessment of the culture, would have been bread and other whole grains, vegetables, fruits and olive oil.