You can just boil it. Like any other grain. Or grind it to boil it faster. If you leave boiled wheat in water, you get beer; if you let it dry, you get bread. Simple like a saber-toothed tiger's ass.
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rice doesn't grow outside of sub tropical climates.
wheat does
Neither did humans, for quite a long time.
Incidentally... Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture
A great deal of speculation about how the cultivation of wheat (which can be done with animal labor to supplant human labor) versus rice (which needs large groups of closely knit groups to grow and harvest successfully) impacted the sociological patterns of the associated human societies.
Nah, Californian's grow rice. You got me curious so I looked, and surprisingly, Arkansas grows loads of it! I could get it going in NW Florida, and it gets down to 19F every winter.
But you're right in that wheat is far tougher in the cold.
Starvation probably.
The original wheat wasn't used for food, but as a household item.
Gather it, beat it, wash it, beat it again, pleat it and you get some tutorial grass armour in your sandbox survival game.
Mix it with dirt, dry it, then stack it together and you have the tutorial shabby dirt brick house. Can even use it as a grass roof.
Anyway, you have some leftovers, the kids take it and play house. The crushed grains mixed with water turn to paste, let it near the fire. Holy shit, that baked bread scent starts wafting over and you haven't eaten in days! You take a bite and it's fucking delicious!
New food recipe unlocked!
So yeah, I made all that up, but sounds plausible no?
i like it therefore it's canon
Take a lump of that paste and form it into a ball, let it dry. Now you can fire it from a cannon.
Slaves to wheat: How a grain domesticated us
"Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world. According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe's surface, almost 10 times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous?" writes Harari.
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Instead of depending on myriad food sources and species, we often got stuck with a single staple such as wheat, which is poor in "minerals and vitamins, hard to digest, and really bad for your teeth and gums".