Sublime

as you know, are filled with starch. Any food made from flour contains starch. Pie crust, cookies, pastries, pasta – all are composed of flour, so all are composed of starch.

Tao-ch’uan says, “Chen-chou’s turnips. Yun-men’s fried bread. My song goes: ‘It’s with you every step, with you every move / standing up or sitting down, all year long / when you eat or drink, it’s before your face / no need to look behind or think another thought.”

the consumption of cereals has four stages. The first is that it is consumed like any other wild fruit or berry, raw. The second is that it is toasted or boiled. The third is that it is milled. The fourth is that the milled cereal is kneaded with water, creating a mass of dough that can be shaped and cooked. Archaeological evidence shows all four o