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IT'S BEEN AROUND LONGER THAN Could you tell the story of the first breakfast man ever ate? Do you know about John Harvey Kellogg's lucky accident that gave birth to the Corn Flake? Probably not. Yet the story of breakfast is a long and complex tale that spans continents and millennia. Eating breakfast began in the Neolithic era – back then, stone querns were used to grind grains to make a sort of porridge. Porridge was also a staple of Roman soldiers' diets – they called it “pulmentus.” Indeed, we can thank the Romans for the word breakfast, which comes from the Latin “disjejunare,” meaning to break the fast, begun the night before when going to bed. The word was later contracted to disnare or disner in Old French, which eventually became dinner in English. So the word dinner actually means breakfast! Rituals changed over time - during the middle ages, barley and hops were used to make beer, which was served up in the morning to hungry peasants alongside oatcakes or porridge. Hot drinks like coffee and tea, as well as meat, eggs and the like, were slowly added to the initially short list of breakfast foods. Eating breakfast had become a more elaborate act by the 19th century, at least in well-off households. In the 1861 Book of Household Management, Isabella Beeton suggested a daily breakfast buffet that included a cold joint of meat, game pies, broiled mackerel, sausages, bacon and eggs, muffins, toast, marmalade, butter, jam, coffee, and tea. 2 1 1 HARVESTING Ripened by over 140 days sunshine, the maize which is to become cereals is gathered bya giant combine harvester. 2 SEAFORTH The grain arrives by ship and is transferred by suction pipes to large storage silos at the rate of 2.000 tons per hour.
YOU THINK At the same time, however, there was a backlash against these lavish diets. Groups like the 7th Day Adventists protested that meat-based breakfasts were leading to ill health and ill morals – the search began for a healthier breakfast. Pioneers like John Kellogg, Henry Perky and C.W. Post would, over the next few decades, develop ready-to-eat breakfast cereals that would go on to become extremely popular and varied. Later, around 1900, other forms of cereals were being invented in Europe – such as muesli. This was created by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher- Benner and consisted of rolled oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit. In the 20th century, with advances in food production, the range of breakfast foods on offer became more and more varied with time. However, fewer and fewer people take the time to have breakfast. A BRIEF TIMELINE • Around 7000 B.C.: The first cereals (wheats, barley) are cultivated in the Middle East • Around 100 A.D.: Roman soldiers add porridge to their diets • 1463: First use of the word “breakfast” in English • 1500s: First shipments of coffee to Venice • 1821: William Cobbett, an English writer, complains about the rise of tea as a breakfast drink • 1894: John Harvey Kellogg invents the Corn Flake. 3 4 3 BULK TRANSPORT The milled “grits” are then taken by bulk road transporter to the processing plant. 4 COOKING The mixture is funneled into giant cookers where it is sealed and rotated under steam pressure.
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