Bread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time. This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840. If it’s hard to read the words,…
Read moreBread, beer and agriculture
Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question. He made several interesting points but the most important point, to…
Read moreMaking flour in ancient Egypt
Ready for more? This is what it took to make flour from emmer wheat in the period between about 1600 and 1100 BC in Egypt. Take uncleaned spikelets of wheat…
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