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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.

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Exploring the Stone Age Pantry -- EurekAlert (17 December 2009)
Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food -- ScienceDaily (18 December 2009)

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sorghum

NOUN:

1.	A cereal, Sorghum vulgare or Sorghum bicolor, the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.

ETYMOLOGY:

From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *Syricum (“Syrian”).

SYNONYMS:

(cereal): guinea corn (West Africa); Kafir corn (South Africa); mtama (East Africa); durra (Sudan); juar, jowar, cholam (India); kaoliang (China); milo (United States)

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Sorghum

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
	Angiosperms
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Sorghum
Species:	Sorghum almum Sorghum amplum Sorghum angustum Sorghum arundinaceum Sorghum bicolor (primary cultivated species) Sorghum bicolor subsp. drummondii — Sudan grass Sorghum brachypodum Sorghum bulbosum Sorghum burmahicum Sorghum controversum Sorghum drummondii Sorghum ecarinatum Sorghum exstans Sorghum grande Sorghum halepense Sorghum interjectum Sorghum intrans Sorghum laxiflorum Sorghum leiocladum Sorghum macrospermum Sorghum matarankense Sorghum miliaceum Sorghum nigrum Sorghum nitidum Sorghum plumosum Sorghum propinquum Sorghum purpureosericeum Sorghum stipoideum Sorghum timorense Sorghum trichocladum Sorghum versicolor Sorghum virgatum

Cookbook: Sorghum -- Wikibooks
Exploring the Stone Age Pantry -- EurekAlert (17 December 2009)
Grain Sorghum (Milo) -- Alternate Field Crops, Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
Humans took 1000 years to tame wild plants -- Science Online, 23 Apr 2004
The Food Timeline –- Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
Identified gaps for Sorghum genepool -- GapAnalysis
National Sorghum Producers
National Sweet Sorghum Producers and Processors Association
Sorghum [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Sorghum -- U.S. Grains Council
"Sorghum and millets in human nutrition" -- FAO
Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food -- ScienceDaily (18 December 2009)
Sweet Sorghum : A New "Smart Biofuel Crop" -- AgriBusinessWeek (30 June 2008)
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Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1932.

Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1932

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"Sorghum Mill, Brown County, Indiana"
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A field of hybrid sorghum

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