The Sinister, Secret History of a Food That Everybody Loves
30th April 2016
The study, published last year by economists at the United Kingdom and Israel doing novel work on archaeological and anthropological evidence, attempts to explain a strange pattern in agricultural practices. The most advanced civilizations all tended to cultivate grain crops, like wheat and barley and corn. Less advanced societies tended to rely on root crops like potatoes, taro and manioc.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in our vegetables, that we are underlings.