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Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled, Bread is a staple food prepared

from a dough of flour, usually wheat, and water, usually by baking.

Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many culture's diet.

It is one of the oldest human-made foods, having been of significance since the dawn of agriculture,

and plays in a central role in both religious rituals and secular culture.

Bread may be leavened by naturally occurring microbes, e.g. sourdough.

Chemicals, e., ag baking soda,

industrially produced yeast or high pressure aeration,

which creates the gas bubbles that fluff up bread.

In many countries, commercial bread often contains additives to improve flavor, texture,

color, shelf life, nutrition, and ease of production.

Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods,

evidence from 30,000 years ago in Europe and Australia revealed starch residue on rocks

used for pounding plants.

It is possible that during this time starch extract from the roots of plants such as cattails and ferns

was spread on a flat rock placed over a fire and cooked into a primitive form of flatbread.

The oldest evidence of bread making has been found in a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan's

Northeastern Desert.

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