Comment on Bread is probably the oldest human invention
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Its definitely an old invention, but maybe not quite as old as you might imagine, we have evidence of a good handful of things from before then
…wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_historic_inventions
Two things on that list in particular kind of stand out to me as obvious precursors to bread
Control of fire and cooking (2.3 million years ago) hard to bake without that unless maybe you live in a very volcanicaly active area or something where you can burry food in
Mortar and pestle (37 thousand years ago) gotta have some way of grinding grains into flour
Which leads us up to bread (14.5 thousand years ago)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
Nice list. Would be cool to have one specifically for the prehistory of food.
Etymologically bread is not a native word in my current home country; but I just looked it up, they did have both flat and raised breads before, just called them differently.