What’s wrong with this picture? Women, slaves and prisoners of war
Samson was grinding. He wasn’t pressing. No matter what some artists may think.
Category: Our Daily Bread
A history of wheat and bread in very short episodes
Water and Power Our Daily Bread 16
A large slave-driven mill could grind seven kilograms of flour an hour. A watermill multiplied that twenty times or more.
Risen Our Daily Bread 15
Ferragosto and the Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary; connected, perhaps, by a sheaf of wheat.
The daily grind Our Daily Bread 14
Bashing wheat with a hammer will not give you flour. What you need is a shearing force, which you get by grinding the grain between two stones.
Bread from the Dead Our Daily Bread 13
How Delwen Samuel, an archaeologist, replicated the bread of Egyptian workers of 3000 years ago. This is the episode that should have been called Bake Like an Egyptian.