• Researchers analyzed 66 samples of bread, cereals, pasta, and flour from 16 countries, including Poland.
• "Forever chemicals" — trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a pesticide degradation product — were found in 54 samples (82%).
• Average concentration: 80 mg/kg.
• Highest levels: 360 mg/kg in breakfast cereal (Ireland) and 340 mg/kg in whole-grain bread (Belgium).
• The Polish sample (toast bread) contained 60 mg/kg of TFA.
• Wheat-based products had higher TFA concentrations than oat-based ones.
• Over 30 pesticide active substances used in European agriculture break down into TFA.
• TFA has previously been detected in surface water, groundwater, tap water, bottled water (in two-thirds of samples), and even wine — a phenomenon observed since the 1990s.
• No safety standards currently exist for TFA.
• In Germany, TFA is classified as potentially harmful to fertility and fetal development, though confirmed toxicity occurs only in animals at much higher concentrations than found in the environment.

for - stats - health - eating bread - 9000 steps a day - to - step calculator - https://www.omnicalculator.com/sports/steps-to-km - approximately 7km walk each day

for - YouTube - health - diet - stats - health - 9000 steps a day - bread

for - to - Roman poet Juvenal - phrase - bread and circuses

to - Roman poet Juvenal - phrase - bread and circuses - https://hyp.is/Q9uOEISGEe-ZTp8-GdVfwQ/drlindaellis.net/a-brief-look-at-the-juvenals-bread-circuses/ - This phrase refers to how easily people are pacified and controlled through distractions

for - from youtube - society of the spectacle - A Brief Look at the Juvenal’s “Bread & Circuses”

https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7964279/what-colored-tags-on-bread-mean/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBGNTJ_Yjg

A yeast that's always on the hooch-y side could be named "Turner"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBU1iQ8PyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqRQBsyvLU

examples of high protein (hard) wheats: - Khorasan - Durum - Hard White Wheat - Hard Red Wheat - Red Fife

Good for breads, pizza, and things where chew is more valuable.

https://pleasanthillgrain.com/

Grain mills: - https://pleasanthillgrain.com/wondermill-grain-mill-wonder-mill-flour-grinder - Komo XL https://pleasanthillgrain.com/ - Komo Flour sifter https://pleasanthillgrain.com/komo-flour-sifter - Komo medium grinder https://pleasanthillgrain.com/komo-medium-grain-mill-flour-grinder

Bread proofer: - https://pleasanthillgrain.com/brod-and-taylor-bread-proofer

Why a Danish Dough Whisk Is My Go-To Baking Tool by Andrew Janjigian

The Danish dough whisk is known as a "brodpisker", a word which translates as "bread whipper".

https://truesourdough.com/full-guide-to-milling-your-own-flour-at-home-why-how-pros-cons/

https://truesourdough.com/best-grain-mill-for-bread-flour-full-buyers-guide/

https://kingsroost.com/

https://www.simply-bread.co/store

https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-seed-bakery-pasadena-20160118-story.html

https://blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/pedagogical-snacking-transforming-classroom-dynamics/

Providing a snack break during classes can dramatically improve the participants' participation and cohesion.

Odysseus staggered from the river and lay down again in the rushes and kissed the grain-giving soil.

This reference to "grain-giving soil" reminds me of this quote:

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the ploughed fields whereby we thrive; it knows the names of king's bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That is the way of human folly.<br/>—Les Merveilles de l'Instinct Chez les Insectes: Morceaux Choisis (The Wonders of Instinct in Insects: Selected Pieces) by Jean-Henri FabreJean-Henri Fabre (Librairie Ch. Delagrave (1913), page 242)

ref: quote

Culturally we often see people kneeling down and kissing the ground after long travels, but we miss the prior references and images and the underlying gratitude for why these things have become commonplace.

"Grain-giving" = "life giving" here specifically. Compare this to modern audiences see the kissing of the ground more as a psychological "homecoming" action and the link to the grain is missing.

It's possible that the phrase grain-giving was included for orality's sake to make the meter, but I would suggest that given the value of grain within the culture the poet would have figured out how to include this in any case.

By my count "grain-giving" as a modifier variously to farmland, soil, earth, land, ground, and corn land appears eight times in the text. All these final words have similar meanings. I wonder if Lattimore used poetic license to change the translation of these final words or if they were all slightly different in the Greek, but kept the meter?

This is an example of a phrase which may have been given an underlying common phrasing in daily life to highlight gratitude for the life giving qualities, but also served the bard's needs for maintaining meter. Perhaps comparing with other contemporaneous texts for this will reveal an answer?

Interesting word choice here.

I would like to see an accurate array of photographs of these tasty lunch options. What does a a "Princess Sandwich" even look like? Is a "Celery Sandwich" satisfying? I'd be pleased to see precise measurements of the ideal "Tea Biscuit" Sandwich.

Yeah... 'cause apparently no one actually cares...