heat has been cultivated by man since before recorded history.
It is conjectured by anthropologists that hungry
hunter/gatherers first stockpiled the grain as a storable food
source. When it got wet, it sprouted, and people found that if
the grain was planted it yielded yet more seeds. History of
Bread Grown in Mesopotamia and Egypt, wheat was likely first
merely chewed. Later it was discovered that it could be
pulverized and made into a paste. Set over a fire, the paste
hardened into a flat bread that kept for several days. It did
not take much of a leap to discover leavened (raised) bread when
yeast was accidentally introduced to the paste. Instead of
waiting for fortuitous circumstances to leaven their bread,
people found that they could save a piece of dough from a batch
of bread to put into the next day's dough. This was the origin
of sour-dough, a process still used today. In Egypt, around 1000
BC, inquiring minds isolated yeast and were able to introduce
the culture directly to their breads. Also a new