The Grains: Glorious Grasses
   
Welcome to the exhibit about the grasses people and animals eat. Rice, the plant that
feeds the most people in the world, and corn, the food that has touched practically every
product in a North American supermarket, as author Margaret Visser puts it, are grasses.
The grains we eat appear as seeds in heads atop long stalks.
 
 
Cultivation of grasses led to the development of towns, to the beginnings of government,
to the earliest writing, and to the development of commerce.