hi for the love of god hello

Third time we bought artichokes, she said, "It was good!"

She was an inquisitive and intelligent person. She recognized what she didn't know, she asked questions, she remembered what she was told, and she identified a resource for learning more.

"Do you think people [in Korea/China] are gonna look at me funny because I'm fat" I think you need to stop thinking so hard about yourself and also this might sound crazy what I'm about to say but there are fat people there too and if you're thinking of a country as a high school setting of potential bullies you are probably not emotionally equipped to be traveling anywhere

"Do you think people are gonna be mean to me because I'm wearing a big backpack instead of a handbag" I think you need to stop thinking so hard about yourself

"Can we please normalize" No fuck you

"Am I allowed to do this, is it okay if I do this, is it alright if I like this, am I allowed to like this, is this allowed, am I allowed" YOU CAN DO ANYTHING I FEEL INSANE

Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.

People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.

If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.

In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.

People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.

It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.

I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.