Musée du Blé et du Pain

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Home baking: bread branding

The breadmaking craft has given rise to an extensive range of remarkable popular traditions, like bread branding.

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Wheat farming: blood, sweat and seeds

Agriculture began during the Neolithic period. In the Fertile Crescent, a region spanning from the Nile to the Indus valley, the warming climate after the ice age allowed for the development of vegetation that was rich in wild cereal grasses. This is where wheat farming began

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Milling

Milling is the act of turning various grains into flour. The history of the machines that are used for this purpose goes back almost far as that of bread itself.

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Wheat farming: harvest and threshing

Once it reaches maturity, wheat is harvested and threshed. Harvesting was initially done using flint, before the arrival of the sickle and then the scythe.