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食べ物と料理

Food and Cooking

The main food of the Yayoi period was rice.

But people did not eat only rice.

They also often ate grains like millet and barnyard millet.

Zakkoku means small-seeded grains other than rice and barley or wheat.

They also grew beans and ate them.

How people ate rice is not known for certain.

There is one view that it was boiled like porridge in a kame, and another that it was steamed.

Scholars are divided on which was the usual way.

For cooking they used the fire of the hearth inside the house.

The life of gathering nuts did not disappear, either.

Nuts such as acorns were eaten even after rice farming began.

In the sea and rivers they caught fish and shellfish.

In the mountains they hunted deer and wild boar.

It is thought that salt was made from seawater.

Salt is thought to have been used for seasoning.

You could say that the food of the Yayoi period was the food of the Jōmon period with rice added.

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