Show I i I if Food Administrator Not new NevI One Olle Lived Before Christs Christ's Birth HAT Ezekiel of biblical T THAT fame was the tue first food administrator in the world and that war bread was common common cornmon com corn I mon in the tho old world more than I 2400 years ago came to the at attention attention at- at of the state food administration administration admin admin- 1 this morning in dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches and publicity matter received from Washington The information states that David Kimchi a thirteenth century century century cen cen- tury commentator mentioned in inthe inthe the tho scriptures that the prophet warne warned the disobedient children of Israel that during the siege of Jerusalem they would no longer be permitted to make their bread from pure wheat The dispatch to the local food administration on the presence of war bread in the scriptures follows A thirteenth century commentator commentator com corn David Kimchi drew attention to the verse in Ezekiel which said Take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet mil mU let and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thel The prophet commented com corn Kimchi thus warns the children of Israel that during the siege of Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem they will no longer be beable beable beable able to make their bread with pure wheat but they will have to mix with it all kinds of grain and vegetables with which flour flouris is not made unless extreme need makes it necessary to do so Whatever Ezekiel may have meant by his advice to the children of Israel he furnished a recipe for war bread which is pretty certainly the oldest extant in the world David Kimchi's comment is years old and Ezekiel wrote 1700 years before Kimchi |