Hocus pocus! Toast!

[slipjig3]

You know what's an amazing piece of alchemy? Bread.

Thank about it: You start with a random plant, ground up. Add the unfertalized fetus of a bird or two, salt from the sea, extract from a sugar cane, and water, and let some microbes go through their normal biological processes. Add fire, and you have pure, delicious nourishment. Amazing.

Never mind me. Just musing aloud. Carry on.

Comments

[fiddledragon]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......bread

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Ya got a problem wit' that? *menacing glare*

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Not alchemy, science!

[icarusfallen8.livejournal.com]

Alchemy is the greatest of the sciences.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

You tell 'im! (That said, you've got to admit that bread is one decimal place away from "eye of newt" territory.)

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Sounds like quite the magical potion/concoction when put that way:)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

'Tis. We so take it for granted, but it all seems so random when you pick it apart.

[stagger-lee77.livejournal.com]

i never thought about it that way, but you're right!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

My work here is done.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

What's amazing to me is how many distinct cultures came up with the notion independently.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

These were the same peoples who figured out everything that's required to make rice edible. Early humans were SMRT.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Good point. I'm remembering seeing a comic about the growth of civilization that did a bit on the trial-and-error process where wheat was concerned: "Here, try this. Braised stalks."

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

You start to wonder if either (a) there was more cultural migration than we think; or (b) aliens popped by and....