date:Jun 09, 2013
be a new technologybut the instinct to turn toward non-foods for foods is as old as scarcity itself. Heres a bit of the somewhat recent history.
As food became harder and harder to come by in Germany during World War I, prominent scientists suggested making bread from all sorts of non-food items, like straw and rushes. In the book Six Thousand Years of Bread, Harry Snyder is quoted as saying that sawdust and wood pulp were the subjects of numerous experiments. It was hoped that by chemical trea