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====Ancient Greece==== {{Main|Ancient Greek cuisine}} In Greek literature, there are numerous mentions of {{Transliteration|grc|ariston}}, 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.<ref name="Anderson, pg 9">[[#Anderson|Anderson]], p. 9</ref> 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.<ref>Homer (2005) ''The Odyssey''. London: Macmillan. p. 265. {{ISBN|1909621455}}</ref> Eventually {{Transliteration|grc|ariston}} was moved to around noon, and a new morning meal was introduced. In the post-Homeric classical period of Greece, a meal called {{Transliteration|grc|akratisma}} was typically consumed immediately after rising in the morning.<ref name="Anderson, pg 9"/> {{Transliteration|grc|Akratisma}} ({{lang|grc|ἀκρατισμός}}, {{Transliteration|grc|akratismos}}) consisted of [[barley]] bread dipped in [[wine]] ({{lang|grc|ἄκρατος}}, {{Transliteration|grc|akratos}}), sometimes complemented by [[Common fig|figs]] or [[olive]]s.<ref>Flacelière R. ''La Vie quotidienne en Grèce au temps de Périclès''. Paris: Hachette, 1988 (1st edn. 1959). p. 205. {{ISBN|2-01-005966-2}}, translated in English as ''Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles''. London: Phoenix Press, 2002 {{ISBN|1-84212-507-9}}</ref> They also made [[pancake]]s called {{Transliteration|grc|tēganitēs}} ({{lang|grc|τηγανίτης}}), {{Transliteration|grc|tagēnitēs}} ({{lang|grc|ταγηνίτης}}),<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dtaghni%2Fths ταγηνίτης], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> or {{Transliteration|grc|tagēnias}} ({{lang|grc|ταγηνίας}}),<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dtaghni%2Fas ταγηνίας], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> all words deriving from {{Transliteration|grc|tagēnon}} ({{lang|grc|τάγηνον}}), meaning "frying pan".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dta%2Fghnon τάγηνον], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> The earliest attested references on {{Transliteration|grc|tagēnias}} are in the works of the 5th century BC poets [[Cratinus]]<ref>Cratinus, [https://archive.org/stream/comicorumatticor01kockuoft#page/52/mode/1up 125], Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta</ref> and [[Magnes (comic poet)|Magnes]].<ref>Ricotti, Eugenia Salza Prina (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iJWhUOazBvsC&dq=tagenites&pg=PA111 ''Meals and recipes from ancient Greece'']. Getty Publications. p. 111. {{ISBN|0892368764}}</ref><ref>Dalby, Andrew (1996) ''Siren feasts: a history of food and gastronomy in Greece''. Routledge. p. 91. {{ISBN|9780415156578}}</ref><ref>Spiller, Gene A. (1991) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Y9PAltb6B0C&dq=teganites++pancake&pg=PA34 ''The Mediterranean diets in health and disease'']. AVI/Van Nostrand Reinhold. p. 34. {{ISBN|0442004494}}</ref> Another kind of pancake was {{Transliteration|grc|staititēs}} ({{lang|grc|σταιτίτης}}), from {{Transliteration|grc|staitinos}} ({{lang|grc|σταίτινος}}), "of flour or dough of [[spelt]]",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dstai%2Ftinos σταίτινος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> derived itself from {{Transliteration|grc|stais}} ({{lang|grc|σταῖς}}), "flour of spelt".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dstai%3Ds σταῖς], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> [[Athenaeus]] in his [[Deipnosophistae]] mentions {{Transliteration|grc|staititas}} topped with [[honey]], [[sesame]] and [[cheese]].<ref>Atheneaus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ath.+646b&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0405 The Deipnosophists, 646b], on Perseus</ref><ref>Dalby, Andrew (2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=FtIXAe2qYDgC&dq=tagenites+staitites+pancake&pg=PA71 ''Food in the ancient world from A to Z'']. Routledge. p. 71. {{ISBN|0415232597}}</ref><ref>Athenaeus and Olson, S. Douglas (2011) ''The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII: Books 13.594b-14'', Loeb Classical Library. pp. 277–78. {{ISBN|0674996739}}</ref>
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