This overview is concerned with FOOD. Other overviews explore SWALLOW or to EAT, DRINK, IMBIBE, ALCOHOL and other related ideas.

In Europe, Ceres sent Tryptolemos to preside over Agriculture.
Wheat and Hay.
Knead and Bake a Mass or Masa into Bread.

FOOD is a broad idea, in the sense that all elements needed by an organism, including oxygen are NUTRIENTS that NURTURE or NURSE NATURE. A simpler way is to focus on COMESTIBLE as in COMEDOR from Latin COMEDERE for to EAT thus SWALLOW. COMEDOR in Spanish is for dining room. In medicine COMEDO refers to skin pimples or swollen dermal secretary glands akin to those seen in ACNE.

Feasts without food for the body and mind are incomplete.

FOOD generally conveys ideas of SOLID nutrients, such as FLESH or MEAT or CARNE favored by CARNIVORES. In a broader sense, CARNAL pleasures also relate to CARNIVAL.

Carnivores have carnal desires.

Implicitly, solid foods require CHEWING or GNAWING. To GNAW or chew, points to Latin GNATHOS or JAW or MANDIBLE. MicroGNATHIA is a medical way to refer to a small CHIN or MENTON in Spanish. MENTOplastia refers to a surgical intervention to render chins more attractive. ProGNATHIA refers to a large jaw causing a prominent chin as those of many members of the royal Habsburg house caused, in their case, by an autosomal dominant gene mutation.

The Habsburg dynasty spread a single gene dominant mutation (half the children of either sex of affected parents develop the same trait manifested as a large jaw).     Kings Felipe II and Felipe IV of Spain.     Isabela of Spain and Kaizer Rudolf II.

NUTRIENTS that can be SUCKED, POURED or SIPPED as in the case of PORRIDGE or SOUPS served for SUPPER are viewed somewhat differently than solid nutrients because they require less chewing or MASTication.

To dent hard foods, dentures are needed. Those with limited dental assets may prefer to sip soups or porridge poured into bowls.

MAST has to do with MAMMARY or BREAST glands and MASTitis and MASTECTOMY refer to inflammation and resection of MAST or BREAST glands.

Mammals know how to nibble a nipple.

Those who favor VEGETARIAN regimes often claim to derive VIGOR from such diets. Consumers of FRUits may claim that such preference is more FRUgal than those of VORACIOUS omniVOROUS counterparts.

It is fruitful to eat fruit and vegetables since "Vegetare" means "to Grow".

Regardless of the above, moderate feEDing habits foster better growth and health, a term rooted the Latin word EDERE for EDIBLE and related to PANacea as if to imply that PAN or bread is a health food. In this spirit, we note that CERES points to CEREAL which pays tribute to her as a CEREbral goddess.

The ancients imparted to SOLID or HARD foods implications of SALUS or health and SALVUS for intact, compact and DURable. In Spanish, DURo is HARD and once was the name of their HARD currency akin to the SOLIDUS, a popular coin under the Roman empire.

To eat, humans Crush and Cut.
To eat, humans also harvest, hunt, kill, butcher and plunder.

Note that the left column offers links to explanatory notes and comments to word-ideas related to this and other overviews concerned with SOLID, SOFT and LIQUID FOOD, SOUP, LIQUOR, ALCOHOL as well as topics like NURSING, TONGUE, MOUTH, JAW, MANDIBLE, THROAT, ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, ABDOMEN or GUT and enlarged bellies such as those who develop in the OBESE or those who are PREGNANT.