Bread
The earliest recognizable forms of flat bread, made from a paste of ground cereals and water, appear with the first farming communities of the Fertile Crescent, about 10,000 years ago. Although the agriculturalist diet was less nutritionally diverse than that of earlier hunter gatherers, the importance of bread in the development of human society shouldn’t be underestimated. Without the intensification of cereal production, early farming communities would have had insufficient food resources to supply those engaged in non-procurement activities, such as art and literature. Without bread, civilisation could have taken a very different turn.