A Commonplace Book

Category: wheat...

  • a form of wheat grew in the Euphrates Valley as early as 7000 BC
  • one variety (Triticum aestivum) is used to make bread, one for pasta/alimentary pasta (durum), and another for cake, crackers, cookies, pastries, etc. (compactum/club)
  • driving across Kansas when the wheat is ready for harvest
  • about 72 percent of the milled wheat grain is recovered as white flour and the greatest proportion is used for breadmaking
  • more of the world's farmland is devoted to wheat than to any other food crop
  • The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running. (J.W. von Goethe)
  • If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? (William Jennings Bryan)

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