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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Farming kickstarted the idea of what we think of as society specifically because it allowed us to stop moving to get our food. A stable food source leads to population growth which leads to everything to put it as simply as possible
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