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RE: Liquid Bread
Discovery did a documentary several years ago that was entertaining "How beer saved the world". Basically it was nutritional and kept people from drinking bad water even though they didn't realize the water was bad.
The documentary put an emphasis on how people didn't farm until they wanted to start brewing beer.
I may have to check that out. I know in Holland, during the late Renaissance, the water was bad and beer was the beverage of choice. The alcohol, of course, sterilized the water. That's why a lot of painted portraits of the era show inebriated people :-)
Haha, I never thought of why so many paintings showed drunk people.