Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine
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How to Make Bread From Wheat
Long before agriculture, by about 20,000 BC, humans are experimenting with grains. "I think they did absolutely everything to them," she says of early farmers. The author's father grew hundreds of acres of wheat and tried to make bread out of it. He learned that many years later when he moved to Mexico where people still grind grains.
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