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Seamus Blackley and the Origins of Bread

Seamus Blackley is credited with being the designer of the original Microsoft Xbox. In parallel to designing the Xbox he is also an amateur Egyptologist and then in his Twitter bio he specifically calls himself a gastro-Egyptologist. He used scrapings of organic matter from the insides of Egyptian pottery and bakeware. And then through the Australians blackily acquired scrapings oforganic matter from like baking a loaf of bread, but did not add traditional yeast. The Egyptians are famous for their beer and for lots of things in particular yeast based things.

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