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 | | Bread wheat is known to have been grown in the Nile valley by 5000 B.C., and its apparently later cultivation in other regions (e.g., the Indus and Euphrates valleys by 4000 B.C., China by 2500 B.C., and England by 2000 B.C.) indicate that it spread from Mediterranean centers of domestication. |
 | | From Cream of Wheat and Cheerios to Bisquick, Bundt pans and butter, the Land of 10,000 Recipes, flavored with the state's agricultural plenty, has changed mealtime forever. |
 | | DNA in charred wheat grains from the Iron Age hillfort at Danebury, England. |
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