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Wheat (Triticum spp.)Belderok, Bob & Hans Mesdag & Dingena A. Donner. (2000) Bread-Making Quality of Wheat. Springer. p.3. ISBN 0-7923-6383-3. is a grass that is cultivated worldwide. Globally, it is the most important human food grain and ranks second in total production as a cereal crop behind maize; the third being rice.FAOSTAT database of World Agriculture, 2006 Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads; cookies, cakes, pasta, noodles and couscous;Cauvain, Stanley P. & Cauvain P. Cauvain. (2003) Bread Making. CRC Press. p. 540. ISBN 1-85573-553-9. and for fermentation to make beer,Palmer, John J. (2001) How to Brew. Defenestrative Pub Co. p. 233. ISBN 0-9710579-0-7. alcohol, vodkaNeill, Richard. (2002) Booze: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century. Octopus Publishing Group - Cassell Illustrated. p. 112. ISBN 1-841-88196-1. or bio-fuelDepartment of Agriculture Appropriations for 1957: Hearings ... 84th Congress. 2d Session. United States. Congress. House. Appropriations. 1956. p. 242.. The husk of the grain, separated when milling white flour, is bran.Ojakangas, Beatrice A. (2002) Great Whole Grain Breads. University of Minnesota Press. p. 48. ISBN 0-8166-4150-1. Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock and the straw can be used as a ruminant fodder component or as a construction material for roofing thatch.Smith, Albert E. (1995) Handbook of Weed Management Systems. Marcel Dekker. p. 411. ISBN 0-8247-9547-4.Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia. Columbia University. p. 1959.
History
Probably the first cereal to be domesticated, the wheat originated in southwest Asia in the area known as the Fertile Crescent. The earliest archaeological evidence for wheat cultivation comes from the Levant, Syria and Turkey. Around 10,000 years ago,Kingfisher Books. (2004) The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. Kingfisher Publications. p. 8. ISBN 0-7534-5784-9. wild einkorn and emmer wheat were domesticated as part of the origins of agriculture in the fertile crescent. Cultivation and repeated harvesting and sowing of the grains of wild grasses led to the selection of mutant forms with tough ears which remained attached to the ear during the harvest process, and larger grains. Selection for these traits is an important part of crop domestication). Because of the loss of seed dispersal mechanisms, domesticated wheats cannot survive in the wild.Smith, C. Wayne. (1995) Crop Production. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 60-62. ISBN 0-471-07972-3. More on [ Wheat ]
Morning all: âIt's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.â Carolyn Wheat
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Morning all: “It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.” Carolyn Wheat
Carolyn Wheat - Bibliography, including list of anthologies containing Wheat's short stories.
Instructor Profile: Carolyn Wheat - Brief profile and list of the courses taught at the University of California, San Diego.
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Mystery Guide: Dead Man's Thoughts - Positive review of the novel featuring lawyer Cass Jameson.
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