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

Using their loaf ... how did the ancients get from a wheatfield to bread? Photograph: Regis Duvignau/Reuters

How 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 Pitt

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