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Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…
Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.
You can make bread with rice flour too if that’s your thing.
“Bread” with rice flour, maybe.
My mom has celiac disease and while the options for gluten free bread have gotten a lot better since the 80s she still sneaks a slice of real sourdough because it’s not the same.
Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn’t need as much water
Wait until you learn about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make cocoa or coffee beans into something palatable, especially compared to
hot leaf juicetea.Cacao isn’t too bad. Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds into a pile, ferment a few days, roast, peal, grind and you got it. There are some details to the ferment but it’s not more complicated than any other ferment d food.
As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than unpleasantly gritty. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.
