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Domestic wheat originated in the Middle East and southwest Asia in what is now known as the Fertile Crescent. The earliest archaeological evidence for wheat cultivation comes from Syria, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq. Around 10,000 years ago, wild einkorn and emmer wheat were domesticated as part of the origins of agriculture in the fertile crescent. Cultivation of wild forms led to selection of mutations for tough-rachised ears (which do not break up at maturity) and larger grains (see domestication). While these forms could not have succeeded in the wild, under cultivation they produced more food for humans.
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Otto Frederick Rohwedder is considered to be the father of sliced bread. In 1912 Rohwedder started work on inventing a machine that sliced bread, but bakeries were reluctant to use it since they were concerned the sliced bread would go stale. It wasn't until 1928, when Rohwedder invented a machine that both sliced and wrapped the bread, that sliced bread caught on. A bakery in Chillicothe, Missouri was the first to use this machine to produce sliced bread.
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Acorns were good until bread was found. (Francis Bacon)
Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing. (Fran Lebowitz)
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. (Corita Kent)
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World production of rice has risen steadily from about 200 million tons of paddy rice in 1960 to 600 million tons in 2004. Milled rice is about 68% of paddy rice by weight. In the year 2004, the top three producers were China (31% of world production), India (20%), and Indonesia (9%). World trade figures are very different, as only about 5-6% of rice produced is traded internationally. The largest three exporting countries are Thailand (26% of world exports), Vietnam (15%), and the United States (11%), while the largest three importers are Indonesia (14%), Bangladesh (4%), and Brazil (3%).
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The Zadoks scale is a cereal development scale proposed by the Dutch phytopathologist Jan C. Zadoks that is widely used in cereal research and agriculture. Knowing the stages of development of a crop is critical in many management decisions that growers make. They are represented on a scale from 10 to 92. Examples of typical stages:
During tillering
- Z10: one leaf
- Z21: tillering begins
During stem extension
- Z30: ear is one centimeter long in wheat
- Z31: first node visible
- Z32: second node visible
- Z37: flag leaf
During heading
- Z55: the head is 1/2 emerged.
During ripening
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The Yam by Irving Berlin
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Potato Salad is able to trace its origins to Germany before the turn of the 17th century, where it first became popular to use vinegar and spices on the potato as side to a meal. The salad has a bite to it and is served warm as often as not.
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The following are all puns:
This is some pretty good tapioca. That's one way of pudding it.
In a bakery buns usually play a small role.
If you are what you eat, I'm staying away from the nuts!
If you leave alphabet soup on the stove and go out, it could spell disaster.
If you eat soup that's nine days old you will get bad broth.
Some of us are like potatoes: thick skinned but soft inside when warmed.
When negotiating whether to share your french fries, you have quite a few bargaining chips.
A box of food you buy for breakfast will have a cereal number on it.
Leftover spaghetti is pasta its prime.
A wide loaf had bread-th.
Corn is so versatile that it is an a-maize-ing grain.
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The Deipnosophistae (deipnon “dinner” and sophistai, “professors”: original Greek title Deipnosophistai, English Deipnosophists) may be translated as The Banquet of the Learned or Philosophers at Dinner or The Gastronomers.
The Deipnosophists is a long work of literary and antiquarian research by the ancient Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis in Egypt, written in Rome in the early second century CE. The protagonist is Ulpian, the host of a leisurely banquet whose main purpose is literary, historical and antiquarian conversation.
In the Deipnosophistae, the Greek author Athenaeus describes some of the breads, cakes, cookies, and pastries available in the Classical world. Among the breads mentioned are griddle cakes, honey-and-oil bread, mushroom shaped loaves covered in poppy seeds, and the military specialty of rolls baked on a spit.
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With water make rivers, with rice make armies. (Cambodian)
It's better for people to wait for rice, than rice for people. (Chinese)
Talk does not cook rice. (Chinese)
Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil. (Southern U.S. Creole)
Once the rice is pudding, it's too late to reclaim the rice. (Indonesian)
Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better. (Japanese)
Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. (Japanese)
When the curry is tasty, the rice is hard. (Malawian)
You can't get rice by pounding bran. (Myanmar)
Sweet rice is eaten quickly. (Sierra Leonean)
The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it. (Solomon Islander)
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy - it makes them who have none very jealous. (Thai)
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