Bread Built Civilization

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Jul 16, 2026 · 16m

For years, bread has been the villain of social media.

Scroll for a few minutes, and you'll find someone telling you bread causes obesity, diabetes, inflammation, or that humans were never meant to eat it.

History tells a different story.

Bread didn't weaken civilization.

Bread helped build it.

From Grass to Greatness

Imagine the first person who looked at wild grass and wondered whether those tiny seeds could become food.

Nobody knows exactly how bread was invented. Maybe someone mixed crushed grain with water and left it in the sun. Maybe wild yeast landed in the mixture, and it began to…