What is the history of "bread" that can be eaten around the world?

byYutaka Seki

The bread that is widely eaten around the world can trace its history back to BC. Bread is an important food which has been heavily involved in the development of civilization, and articles which described the history of such bread are scientific web mediaLIVE SCIENCEIt is published in.

Who Invented Bread?
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Food called "bread" has evolved over the past several thousand years to its present state, so you can not identify any person as "inventor". In 2004, the IsraeliLake GalileeFrom the excavation site of the Ohalo II ruins in the southern coastal area, barley was found over 22,000 years ago grinded by grinding wheels. This is thought to be the first trace of human beings processing grain and trying to eat it, but in this age it is believed that they had eaten the grains which had not yet been heated with heat stones or fire.

It was believed that primarily agricultural farming was done by cultivating cereals first, it existed near PalestineNatuff culturePeople. It is said that Natuff culture is the first culture to shift from hunting collection food system to agricultural food system, and it is known that the infrastructure for crushing barley and making it into bread was prepared. Bread of the time was smallPitaIt looks like he was covered with fire directly.

byWenchao Wang

Over the following thousands of years, cultivation of grains has spread to the Middle East and Southwest Asia. "Bread is a spark-like existence that led to the development of the state and politics of the spread place", and he is studying the history related to foodWilliam RubelMr. Mr. talked about promoting the accumulation of surplus property by making grain as bread, and it is said that it became an opportunity to expand until the village became a city.

In the Bronze Age of 5000 years after Natuff culture began making pristine bread,Egypt·Mesopotamia·IndusThree civilizations develop, but all these civilizations were dependent on bread. Mr. Rubel said, "Bread has accounted for the majority of the calorie consumed by people and encouraged the accumulation of wealth and the formation of a social class, without bread, there is no full-time worker I did it. "

byUNAMID

It was thought that it was around 1000 BC that the first fermented bread was made using natural yeast. There is a theory that the Egyptian civilization first made fermented bread and there was also a theory that it was making fermented bread in the Mesopotamian civilization at the same time, so it seems unclear which was the future.

Also, it is said that "the roots of fermented bread is likely to be the same as the roots of beer". Ancient Egyptians using barley and wheatSourdoughWe made baker's bread called "sourdough" which was crushed finely and put on water to make beer. It is said that bread and beer change the ratio of the same material as water, cereals, and yeast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that "beer is liquid bread".

Bread, which has been largely involved in the development of human civilization and the formation of social structure, is now capable of mass production with a sophisticated construction method, but it was not made from the beginning like the present way of making, It is a product of evolution for thousands of years.

bySam Beebe