Beer

From your Guide, a look at the idea that man developed grain for the sake of beer instead bread.

In this 1994 article, Kitchen Anthropologist Ed Hitchcock writes: "I managed not only to produce a beer that could have been made over 9000 years ago, but also to explore the intimate link between beer and bread. These experiments led me to the conclusion that the argument over the primacy of bread vs. beer is as academic as that of the chicken vs. egg."

From British Archaeology, no 27, September 1997. Meadowsweet may have been added to extent the shelf life of ritual beer made the Egyptian way.

Jack Kilmon says early writing was intimately connected with beer. Image of cylinder seal depicting beer production.