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• Six foods that climate change is going to ruin: Some of the most common crops, like corn and coffee, are already suffering as the Earth warms -- salon (06 February 2023)
  
  
• Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax -- The Guardian (23 August 2022)
  
  
• The forgotten foods that can revolutionise your diet -- BBCReel (04 February 2021)
  
  
• Bread price may rise after dire UK wheat harvest -- BBCNews (26 August 2020)
  
  
• Which Food Influenced Humanity The Most? (27:04) -- Mental Floss (26 August 2020)
  
  
• The Delicious History of 14 Pasta Shapes (13:19) -- Mental Floss (22 July 2020)
  
  
• A tiny ‘nation’ in outback Australia -- BBCNews (12 August 2020)
  
  
• Most Farmers in the Great Plains Don’t Grow Fruits and Vegetables. The Pandemic is Changing That -- Civil Eats (12 May 2020)
  
  
• The Whole-Grain Grail: A Sandwich Bread With Mass Appeal -- The New York Times (28 February 2020)
  
  
• video: Secrets of the Stone Age, (2/2 85 min., 2017, Top Documentary Films)
  
  
• The Dutch windmill making artisanal bread -- BBCtravel (15 November 2019)
  
  
• Wild wheat genetics offer climate hope for food crops -- BBCNews (17 September 2019)
  
  
• Krimsky, Sheldon. GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods. London: MIT Press, 2019.
  
  
• Archaeologists find earliest evidence of bread [Jordan] -- The Guardian (16 July 2018)
  
  
• The Ascension of Cauliflower: Food companies are capitalizing on the low-carb, gluten-free trend by using vegetables like cauliflower to replace flour, rice and other simple carbs -- The New York Times (08 June 2018)
  
  
• Scientists apply for GM wheat trial in UK -- BBCNews (4 November 2016)
  
  
• The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta -- BBCtravel (19 October 2016)
  
  
• Wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid in the UK -- NewScientist (15 October 2018)
  
  
• Wheat gene map to help 'feed the world' -- BBCscience (16 August 2018)
  
  
• 'Milestone' reached in fighting deadly wheat disease -- BBCscience (22 December 2017)
  
  
• Nothing Says 'Hip' Like Ancient Wheat -- NPR (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Romans Ate Porridge, Pasta and Bread, Imported Opium Poppy and Had Fleas at a Fort Near Glasgow -- Culture24 (06 June 2016)
  
  
• Why Rice Growers in China Are More Sexually Liberal Than Wheat Growers -- Conversation (12 May 2016)
  
  
• A Lesson From Wheat Evolution: From the Wild to Our Spaghetti Dish -- ScienceDaily (05 April 2016)
  
  
• Clemson Scientist Helping to Restore Ancient Southern Wheat -- EurekAlert (04 April 2016)
  
  
• “Ancient Grains” Like Quinoa Are Trendier Than Wheat, But No Healthier -- Lifehacker (08 December 2015)
  
  
• University of Minnesota works to make Kernza the wheat of the future -- MPRNews (13 November 2015)
  
  
• Ancient DNA Dispute Raises Questions About Wheat Trade in Prehistoric Britain -- Nature (03 November 2015)
  
  
• Noodle makeover: How one Japanese migrant made it in the US -- BBC News (18 August 2013)
  
  
• Evidence for Plant Cultivation at 23,000-Year-Old Site in Galilee -- Past Horizons (23 July 2015)
  
  
• The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming -- PLoS ONE (22 July 2015)
  
  
• World's Oldest Pretzel Found in Germany -- Discovery News (2015-03-13)
  
  
  • Archaeologists Find 250-Year-Old Pretzel: Photos -- Discovery News (2015-03-13)
    
    
• The enduring power of three Shredded Wheat -- BBCNews (24 March 2015)
  
  
• Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It -- NPR (27 February 2015)
  
  
• Ancient DNA Reveals How Wheat Came to Prehistoric Britain -- Nature (26 February 2015)
  
  
• Barley and Wheat Residues in Neolithic Cemeteries of Central Sudan and Nubia -- LiveScience (09 February 2015)
  
  
  • Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago -- PLoS ONE (22 October 2014)
    
    
• Domestic Cereals in Evidence 7,000 Years Ago in Sudan -- Past Horizons (26 November 2014)
  
  
• Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago -- PLoS ONE (22 October 2014)
  
  
• Complex Bread Wheat Genome Cracked -- National Geographic (17 July 2014)
  
  
• Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History -- Nature (17 July 2014)
  
  
• Before the Silk Road, the Grain Road? -- New York Times (07 April 2014)
  
  
• Shepherds Spread Grain Along Silk Road 5,000 Years Ago -- Discovery News (02 April 2014)
  
  
• Appetites: 'Heritage wheat' gives rise to tasty breads -- Tom Crann, MPR (05 February 2014)
  
  
• Doctors: Changes in wheat do not explain rise of celiac disease -- MPR (27 September 2013)
  
  
• Ancient Climate Change Picked the Crops We Eat Today -- NewScientist (15 August 2013)
  
  
• Farming Got Hip In Iran Some 12,000 Years Ago, Ancient Seeds Reveal -- NPR (05 July 2013)
  
  
• Farming Was So Nice, It Was Invented at Least Twice -- Science (04 July 2013)
  
  
• How a Bowl of Porridge Transformed Mankind -- Telegraph (28 June 2013)
  
  
• Cambridge-Based Scientists Develop 'Superwheat' -- BBC News (11 May 2013)
  
  
• Do Heritage Grains Hold Promise for the Gluten-Sensitive? -- Pacific Standard (15 June 2012)
  
  

• Ancient Grains: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? -- Los Angeles Times (19 February 2011)
  
  
• Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012.
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Counihan Carole M. A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
  
  
• Errington, Frederick, Deborah Gewertz, and Tatsuro Fujikura. The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food Into the Twenty-first Century. Univ of California Press, 2013.
  
  
• Humans took 1000 years to tame wild plants, Science Online, 23 Apr 2004
  
  
• The Food Timeline – Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
  
  
• Greatest thing since sliced bread: New data offer important clues toward improving wheat yields -- Tracey DePellegrin Connelly, EurekaAlert! (10 March 2009)
  
  
• How pasta became the world's favourite food -- BBCNews (15 June 2011)
  
  
• Jurafsky, Dan. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. NY: Norton, 2014.
  
  
• Kennedy, Diana. The Tortilla Book, Revised Edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Morgan, Dan. Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply. iUniverse, 2000 [Originally published by Viking, 1979].
  
  
• Morton, Paula E. Tortillas: A Cultural History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
  
  
• Newman, Kara. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. Columbia University Press, 2012.
  
  
• Perlmutter, David and Kristin Loberg. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killer. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
  
  
• Stewart, Amy. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Creat the World's Great Drinks. Algonquin, 2013.
  
  
• Stone Age humans ate porridge on holiday -- Science Online (28 Jun 2004)
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
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• Wheat [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  
  
• Wild Food Crop Relatives to Be 'Rescued' -- BBC News (10 December 2010)
  
  
• Wilkins, John. M. and Shaun Hill. Food in the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
  
  

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