The Story of Bread (Classic Reprint) - Edwin Lincoln Barker

Excerpt from The Story of Bread
And as the world had stood still for so many years, its release was a signal for leaps and bounds.
I was about to say that to know the story of bread is to know the story of the world. But suppose we interline this with the thought that to know the story of bread is to know the story of industrial and commercial progress. By its footprints we can follow the path that leads straight from serfdom to independence - from the man in a cave to the man in a skyscraper.
Hose who have not forgotten their Dickens remember that in passing on the fate of a boat long overdue, Jack Bunsby gave it as his solemn opinion that "the ship has either gone down," or she hasn't gone down. So much for old Jack Bunsby, and so much for the boat. And in like manner, so much for wheat.
Just where wheat came from, and what it was before it was wheat, are largely matters of speculation.
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