Neolithic Culinary Delights is a Stone Age journal: the story of Eve, a roaming cave-woman, who resolves the pangs of hunger by settling down to grow her own food. Eve and her family join other families; they start a settlement that eventually grows into a prosperous village: FLOUR POWER. Savvy Eve acquires a food fortune. In the Middle East: wheat; Peru: potato and corn – and the belly-food of Asia: rice. In the beginning there was a tongue, lingua/language: from Stone Age campfire TALK – to 21^st century mass SPEECH on the Internet. My laptop/pen is the tongue of my mind. Give me PIZZA; guacamole with CORN chips and French-fried POTATOES; Rice Krispies for breakfast, and for dinner fried RICE!

THE STORY OF WHEAT:

bread/pizza—pastry—pasta

CHAPTER SIX:

THE STORY OF THE POTATO

CHAPTER SEVEN:

THE STORY OF RICE

Writing was invented in Sumer [south Iraq] circa 3300-BCE:

the EARLY BRONZE AGE

The HEBREW [Old Testament] TORAH was written circa 500-BCE:

the IRON AGE

GENESIS 6—THE FLOOD—Noah and the ark

6:13

God said to Noah—I am going to put an end to all people for the earth is filled with violence because of them. 6:14—make yourself an ark of cypress wood. 6:19—you are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

7:4—I will send rain to the earth for forty days and forty nights and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. 7:13—Noah and his wife, sons SHEM, HAM and JAPETH and their wives entered the ark. The floodgates of the heavens were opened. 7:24—The water flooded the earth for 150 days. On the 17^th day of the 7^th month the ark came to rest on the MOUNTAINS of ARARAT [an area/region]: GEORGIA—ARMENIA--AZERBAIJAN

GENESIS 10—The Table of Nations: descendants

THE SEMITES

THE HAMITES

THE JAPHETHITES

10:32—From these

the nations spread out over the earth AFTER THE FLOOD

[according to the Old Testaments]

MODERN SCIENCE: Humans came out of [east] AFRICA

In Mesopotamia writing was invented so that “temples” could communicate—long-distance—with each other and trade their surplus commodities: wheat in exchange for timber; salt in exchange for leeks/onions, leather for beer; precious lapis lazuli for wheat; etc. etc.

For the peoples of Mexico, Mesoamerica and Peru CORN/MAIZE was their staple food. There was no “FOOD” trade, and therefore [long-distance] WRITING was nonessential.

The INCA invented/created an inventory system: the QUIPU. The Asian countries had the ABACUS: an accounting system similar to the modern calculator.

Fascinating: do a Google!

STAY TUNED!

HOW WE GET—PRECONCEIVED IDEAS!

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