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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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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This reflection was originally published by the GaianWay.org
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