How did ancient cultures work out how to make bread from wheat?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsHow did so many ancient cultures figure out that you can make flour, and then bread, from wheat? It’s a pretty convoluted process and I reckon you could sit me in front of a field of wheat with an oven, some water, a grinder and some yeast and wheat, and I’d never put the five together.Anthony PittContinue reading...