Chapter 1: Survive We Can

The first chapter of our History of CPG series

The advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago – the Neolithic age - marked the first major technological paradigm shift for humanity following the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Of course, there was the question of how to store our agricultural surplus and, relatedly, how to preserve the grains and literal fruits of our labor. The boiling, drying, cooli…