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...As a result, futures markets exist for almost all food and mineral commodities, including steel, gold, coffee, sugar, orange juice, and wheat....
...In Ukrainian culture, a spikelet of wheat is a sacred thing....
...“Celebrating Ukraine’s connection with wheat is symbolic. The main Ukrainian bread is palyanytsya, a word that’s also taken on new significance because Russians can’t pronounce it....
...Nikita Khrushchev’s trip to the American Midwest in 1959 inspired an abundance of wheat and corn sheaves....
...For her coronation in 1953, the Queen’s robe of state gleamed with tiny olives and sheaves of wheat — symbols of a new Elizabethan era of prosperity — hand-stitched in gold thread....
...China’s finest noodles are almost always rustled up on the spot, to order, by skilled artisans who often transform the dough before your eyes....
...This spring, The Oxford Artisan Distillery will unveil its first fully fledged rye, made with locally grown heritage grain....
...This has culminated in Cook the Farm, a two-month-long apprenticeship that sees its participants make cheese, prune vines, shadow a shepherd in the hills for a day, grind wheat and visit olive mills and...
...What is the difference between a hard wheat and a soft wheat?...
...Everyone, from global drinks giants like Heineken and Diageo to tiny artisan companies in Hackney and Brooklyn, it seems, is now courting the sober-curious. That’s the good news....
...When the Anglo-Normans invaded in the 12th century, they introduced a wider range of fruits, vegetables and spices, along with the cultivation of wheat....
...She saw them laid out to dry on the red earth by patient artisans working around the monsoon season....
...Mikkeller’s excellent wheat beer Energibajer isn’t just alcohol-free; the Mikkeller Running Club find it so nutritious that they use it as an isotonic recovery drink....
...The 19th-century urban poor ate white bread made with wheat grown in the Americas and drank vast quantities of sweetened tea instead of the traditional, calorie-rich beer....
...Orecchiette is not great when sold dried so unless you have access to a local artisan — living in Puglia helps in that enterprise — you will have to make it yourself....
...It must be fed [with wheat-bran porridge] and left to rest for a few days between each use to allow the bacteria to regenerate. The older it gets, the more tired the organisms become....
...In May, seeding for rapeseed and summer wheat started for the first time....
...Borough Market has always had one foot in the foreign exotic and the other in the return of the British artisan....
...My latest is a brown military one that I commissioned from an artisan in Milan when I couldn’t find what I wanted....
...We had high hopes of the artisan-sounding Sainsbury’s Instore Bakery mince pies but the quality control was a bit iffy....
...But a century ago, belt-driven threshers arrived, and, latterly, combine harvesters, and gone are both the haystacks and the long straw....
...It’s here that Flor de Sal d’Es Trenc, artisan maker of sea salt, is adding value and visibility to a product that the island had always taken for granted, and winning numerous awards in the process....
...He later evolved into a “physician of stone buildings”, an artisan who looks after the work of former artisans....
...Orford houses another smoker and a smart village shop selling artisan cheeses from Suffolk and beyond, but it was the story of the bakery that really fascinated me....
...Billions of dollars will also be spent on buying sugar, wheat and fish from abroad; in 2010 the food import bill was $10bn....
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