Jul 31, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 15 segments
What happened to bread—and why are so many people blaming gluten?John sits down with food scientist Sue Becker of Bread Beckers to uncover the dark history of modern flour. Sue explains how industrial…
People had the capacity to mill their own grain or communities were built up around the miller.
Have you ever thought about that? Once animal power was, you know, kind of brought on the scene or water power, they made these bigger flour mills, grain mills that could be run.
You've seen the pictures of the ox treading out the big stone mill, you know, in the barn.
And have you ever thought about it? Have you ever thought about all the mill roads around? I don't know if they're out here in Rome, but just around where I live, there's Poole's Mill Road, there's Rope Mill Road.
And so they would mill the flour and people would buy it as they needed it if they didn't have their own mills in their home.
What is that? That's all of our fruits and vegetables, right? Then he says, I'm giving you plants that bear seed for your food.
People had the capacity to mill their own grain or communities were built up around the miller.
Have you ever thought about that? Once animal power was, you know, kind of brought on the scene or water power, they made these bigger flour mills, grain mills that could be run.
You've seen the pictures of the ox treading out the big stone mill, you know, in the barn.
And have you ever thought about it? Have you ever thought about all the mill roads around? I don't know if they're out here in Rome, but just around where I live, there's Poole's Mill Road, there's Rope Mill Road.
And so they would mill the flour and people would buy it as they needed it if they didn't have their own mills in their home.
What is that? That's all of our fruits and vegetables, right? Then he says, I'm giving you plants that bear seed for your food.
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