Meet the food writer who is helping one of Orkney's historic ingredients make a welcome return
She lives at Lhanbryde in Moray, although she has long family connections to the islands. “Some of the first grains of bere were found on the shores of the Sea of Galilee some 8,000 years BC, and how it came to be a staple crop in Orkney is quite an interesting story,” said Liz “During the Neolithic revolution, farmers started to cultivate crops instead of just being hunter-gatherers, and because of that they needed more land to grow crops. “As the population settled and grew, and the Ice Age diminished, they moved out of what’s known as the Fertile Crescent – a region in the Midd...
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