🥖 HOW WHEAT BECAME BREAD: FROM GRASS TO LOAF
PAGE 1 OF 5, WILD BEGINNINGS
THE ORIGINAL GRASS
FROM WEED TO WHEAT
Long before supermarkets, wheat was a wild grass. Early kinds such as einkorn and emmer had tiny seeds and tough husks, but they stored serious energy. People in the Fertile Crescent and beyond began saving the best seeds, season after season, nudging “chunkier ears” long before anyone said “DNA.”
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EINKORN
🌾 Among the first grains people shaped on purpose.
RIVERS & FIELDS
🌍 Mild valleys and water helped fields spread.