Food Quote by Norman Davies

“Grains: Barley, corn, durum, fonio, Job’s tears, kamut, millet, oats, rice, rye,”

— Sarah Ballantyne

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

— Jean-Henri Fabre

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There,…

— Plautus

“If you have proven gluten sensitivity, then you must meticulously avoid rye, barley, bulgur, triticale, kamut, and perhaps oats.”

— William Davis

“Modern wheat, despite all the genetic alterations to modify hundreds, if not thousands, of its genetically determined characteristics, made its way to the worldwide…

— William Davis

“Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

— David Lee Roth

“The sad truth is that the proliferation of wheat products in the American diet parallels the expansion of our waists.”

— William Davis

WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred, Else to harvest no wheat were won: Always from good is good begun. So seemly a…

— Anonymous

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed…

— David F. Houston

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari