From this nexus, agriculture moved, each area of the world developing its grain of choice, rice in Asia, corn in America, sorghum on the African continent and wheat in the Mediterranean. The French historian Fernand Braudel defines these as the ‘plants of civilization’. New societies were constructed around the chosen one, agriculture, economy,

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It’s hypothesized that this very thing—rice farming versus wheat farming—is at the heart of communal societies going way back. Could it be, such a simple fork? A crop choice based on environment: wet, humid, rainy, therefore: rice. And with that a pervasive care throughout generations, a sense of knowing your happiness and health are intertwingled

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