Six Thousand Years of Bread Quotes

“Raised bread cannot be prepared from millet, oats, barley, or corn. Therefore the history of bread revolves upon wheat and rye—and wheat far more than rye. Bread, in the technical sense of the word, is a discovery of man—one of his first great chemical triumphs. The Albanian proverb, “Bread is older than man,” springs from a poetic but misguided sense of history.”
― Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History

“The species of grain eaten by men are brethren that have prevailed for millennia. If we omit rice—whose history is totally at variance with that of the other grains—there are six that man has used since primitive times. These are: millet, oats, barley, and wheat in the earliest period; rye since the late classic period; and maize or Indian corn since the discovery of America. These six brethren have fed the world for nearly ten thousand years.”
― Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History

“The threshing floor is the battlefield between the tenacity of the stalk and men’s hunger for flour.”
― Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History