Bread Riots. Again. This Time the Middle East.
Of the top 20 wheat importers for 2010, almost half are Middle Eastern countries. The list reads like a playbook of toppled and teetering regimes: Egypt (1), Algeria (4), Iraq…
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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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