My Bowl of Cereal

Bart Everson

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• 1 cup rolled oat flakes
• 1 cup rolled wheat flakes
• 1 cup rolled barley flakes
• 1 cup rolled rye flakes
• 1 cup coconut flakes (unsweetened)
• ¼ cup nuts
• ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
• ¼ cup sunflower seeds
• 1 Tablespoon (TB) hulled hemp seeds
• 1 TB ground flax seeds
• 1 TB cacao nibs
• A handful of dried fruit

Muesli

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Illustration by Bart Everson

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For sure, only cereal-farming and grain storage made possible bureaucratic regimes like those of Pharaonic Egypt, the Maurya Empire or Han China.

 

But to say that cereal-farming was responsible for the rise of such states is a little like saying that the development of calculus in medieval Persia is responsible for the invention of the atom bomb.

Reproduction of engraving by P.P. Prud'hon. Wellcome Library, London.

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from Gaia > to Demeter

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Randy von Liski

This reflection was originally published by the GaianWay.org

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