grain-plants

Updated: June 17, 2025

Somewhere in this region we may provisionally place the cradle of what I may perhaps describe as the Bread-and-Cheese culture, in which the staple foods are provided by grain-plants and cattle, the latter being valued for their strength and their milk products, but not primarily for their flesh. Disseminated westward, the Bread-and-Cheese culture is found to suffer regional modification.

- The Unity of Western Civilization