Beer I can understand: humans will go to great lengths for drugs/alcohol, and with a growing tolerance I could see how moving from place to place looking for fermented fruit wouldn’t suffice.
Bread I don’t know why bread in particular would start the work investment needed just to create food. It’s not mindblowingly delicious but does require some devoted time/chemistry. Why wouldn’t ancestors simply move from place to place in search of other food, compared to the timely and difficult process of farming?
Thanks!
EDIT: thank you for the thoughtful responses! The longevity of it/hard tack makes absolute sense. I felt there was something obvious about bread in particular that I was missing. Easy grain to farm + longevity of the food = invest in farming for food. Thanks!
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Because bread lasts longer than uncooked grain.
You now have a food source that can last for a couple of days instead of needing to basically be eaten the same day that it’s picked.
Since humans like to know that we have food having one food source that can last a couple of days after being cooked is going to lead humans to try cooking everything.
Experimenting with things that you can only acquire if you foraging is tedious and time-consuming so the humans will almost certainly start to try to farm these other plants they’re trying to figure out how to cook.
Keep going in that thread but fast forward a few thousand years and boom McDonald’s.
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