Quotes About Wheat

The heirloom biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat.

Gluten is found in wheat barley, rye, spelt, oats, and kamut and holds bread together and makes it rise.

and thrust into the great sea of wheat, yellow, wavy, and murmurous, full of quiet motion and small whisperings. Here he often loved to wander, through the forest of stiff strong stalks that carried their own golden sky away over his head—a

Wheat is blond in the Steppe, yellow in the Prairie. Algae in the labs is many different brownish greens.

It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it.

Gin is really nothing more than a flavored vodka whose predominant flavor is juniper, so gin drinkers who say they won't drink vodka misunderstand the nature of their addiction. The base spirit itself is generally a mixture of barley, rye, and perhaps wheat or corn.

I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.

That machine's a great invention! he said. Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

In Punjab wheat production it is a 'gamble of temperature' unlike other parts of the country where there is a 'gamble of rainfall'.

I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Keeping off wheat helps my energy levels.

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.

I am on a ketos diet so I avoid sugar, dairy products, wheat, grain or pulses.

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

Wheat makes my stomach very bloated. Sugar is horrible for my skin, but I love it.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.