What Was Maslin? The Medieval Baker's Famine Proof Bread You've Never Heard Of скачать в хорошем качестве

What Was Maslin? The Medieval Baker's Famine Proof Bread You've Never Heard Of

In 1994, archaeobotanist John Letts was sitting at a desk inside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History when someone handed him a shoebox. Inside was a pile of smoke-blackened straw pulled from the bottom layer of a medieval thatched roof in southern England. He opened the lid and found twenty different types of wheat. Every ear was different. Different heights, different shapes, different colors. All grown together in the same field, harvested together and bundled into the roof of a building sometime around the year 1400. That thatch had been sitting untouched for over 600 years, layer after layer of straw built up over centuries, each one a time capsule of what English farmers were actually growing. Not one type of grain. Many types of grain, mixed together on purpose.