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Cereal. The word is derived from Ceres, the Roman goddess of harvest.
Goddess Demeter was associated especially with grain. We now partially use her Roman name as what we would call cereal. (The resemblance Ceres her roman name Cereal the name we use for a grain food)
Vulcan was the god of fire and Vesta was the goddess of fire. Vulcan was the Roman equivalent of Hephaestus, the lame smith of the gods. Correction: Vesta was the goddess of the hearth. Not quite the same.
Edesia is the numen, or divine spirit of feasting , which was apparently considered a magical and important act by the Romans, enough so to have its own goddess. The verb edes can also mean " to spend money on food", connecting her with luxury as well as city life, where most of the food was bought, rather than in the country where people grew most of their own.
Demeter is a goddess of the harvest and of bread and grain: foods of mankind.