Crumbs; the oldest bread Our Daily Bread 03
Maybe you heard about the oldest crumbs of burnt toast in the world. But have you stopped to wonder how the archaeologists found those crumbs?
Category: Podcasts
Boil in the Bag Our Daily Bread 02
It’s a trick scouts and survivalists know: you don’t need a heat-proof container to boil water.
The Abundance of Nature Our Daily Bread 01
Gathering enough wheat to eat probably wasn’t all that difficult.
Our Daily Bread 00 Introducing a series on the history of wheat and bread
It’s magic, I know. First a pretty ordinary grass becomes the main source of sustenance for most of the people alive on Earth. Then they learn how to turn the seeds of that grass into the food of the gods.
Food as Power "We are suffering, in short, from a power famine as well as a food famine"
In 1946 Geoffrey Pyke, an eminently sane scientist, put forward the idea of using what little coal there was to refine sugar rather than feeding it to locomotives. Human muscles would make far better use of the energy than steam engines. The problem Pyke tried to tackle remains essentially unsolved: where is the power for food production to come from?