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A small bakery in Toronto, Canada, became a behemoth that bestrides global bread and beyond. Phew!

St Anthony Falls powered the sawmills that created the financial capital that laid the foundations for General Mills.

A large slave-driven mill could grind seven kilograms of flour an hour. A watermill multiplied that twenty times or more.

Ferragosto and the Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary; connected, perhaps, by a sheaf of wheat.

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.