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Eating raw carrots, berries, and potatoes is all very well, but sometimes you need something a bit more... wholesome. Minecraft has a variety of cooked foods in its larder – including baked potatoes, various grilled meats, a multitude of soups and stews, and of course our item of the week – bread.
啃生的胡萝卜、浆果或者马铃薯确实很有营养，但有些时候你应该改善一下生活，尝一尝更……健康的东西。在 Minecraft 中有各种各样的料理——比如烤马铃薯、各种熟肉、各种汤类和煲类，以及还有我们本周的主角——面包。

Bread was added to Minecraft very early in its history, in February 2010 in the same update that introduced farming, hoes, seeds, and wheat. Want to craft some? It’s pretty simple – till some dirt near water with a hoe, plant seeds in it, wait a while, harvest the wheat, then craft three wheat into bread!
在 Minecraft 历史中，面包很早就添加进了游戏。具体来说，是在 2010 年二月的那次更新 —— 那次更新同时也引入了耕种系统，加入了各种锄工具、种子以及小麦等等元素。你想要试着合成几块面包吗？方法很简单——看看有没有紧挨着水的泥土，对它们使用你的锄，把你的种子种下去，然后静静地等待，等小麦成熟之后将其收割，然后你就可以用三份小麦合成出一块面包！你学废了吗？

You can also get bread by trading with farmer villagers (who’ll trade it with other villagers themselves), and by finding it in village, mansion, dungeon, mineshaft, and stronghold chests.
你也可以通过与农民交易来获得面包（农民之间也会互相交易面包）。你还可以在村庄、林地府邸、地牢、废弃矿井或要塞的箱子中发现面包。

Considering that bread is only made of one ingredient, it’s surprisingly good food! Each loaf you eat restores a quarter of the hunger bar, meaning that a full stack of bread will take you from starving to full an impressive 16 times.
考虑到合成面包的原料只需要一种，它可以说是一种性价比很高的食物！你每吃一块面包就可以填充饥饿条的四分之一（5 点饥饿值），这意味着一组面包总共可以从零填满你的饥饿值 16 次。

But that’s not all you can do with bread. You can also use it to get villagers to reproduce – three loaves will make a villager “willing”, allowing them to breed. If only dating was that easy in the real world.
但是面包的功能可不止这些。你可以用面包繁殖村民——只用三块面包就可以激起村民的“欲望”，使他们可以繁殖。要是现实生活中只需要三块面包就能买个 npy 就好了。（译注：你再骂

Oh, and you can make compost out of bread – one loaf has an 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1. That’s rather less efficient than just composting wheat on its own, but hey – if you’ve got loads that you need to get rid of, then it’s a productive choice.
对了，你还可以用面包堆肥——每一块面包有 85% 的几率增加一层堆肥层数。虽然用面包堆肥要比直接用小麦堆肥更亏，但是——如果你的面包存货太多，这个方法可以有效地清理你的库存。

In the real world, bread is one of the oldest man-made foods to still be eaten today, and it appears in cuisines from almost every part of the world. Rocks have been found in prehistoric caves from 30,000 years ago, in both Europe and Australia, that show starch residues that indicate they may have been used for pounding roots into a flatbread that could be cooked over a fire.
在现实世界中，作为现在仍然流行的食物，面包是历史最悠久的人造食物，而且世界各地的料理中都可以看到面包的影子。人们在欧洲和澳洲 30,000 年前的远古洞穴中发现了岩石中残留的淀粉，这说明当时的人们可能会把（含有淀粉的）植物根部打成面饼并用火烤熟来充饥。

It wasn’t until the Neolithic era, which began about 12,000 years ago, that agriculture began to spread and grains like wheat and rice became the principal ingredient of bread. Early on, people may have baked a primitive sourdough, with dough left to rest until natural yeast spores caused it to rise. Later this yeast was cultivated from beer and wine production.
而直到 12,000 年前的**，农业开始发展，而诸如小麦和水稻也成为面包的主要成分。早些时候，人们可能会把面团放在火上烤，然后静置面团，等待空气中的天然酵母进入面团并使之膨胀。后来，做面包用的酵母就不是来自空气中的酵母孢子了，而是从啤酒和葡萄酒生产得到的发酵液中提取。

This sourdough approach – which takes time and patience – remained popular for millennia, but in 1862 bread-baking was changed forever when British baker John Dauglish discovered that you could mix bread with carbonated water to produce “aerated bread” in industrial quantities, for a fraction of the time and cost.
这种耗时耗力的发酵面团的方法流传了几千年，但是在 1862 年，英国的烘焙师 John Dauglish 发现在工业生产中可以通过向面团中加入碳酸水来使面包“充气”，可以大大减少消耗的时间和精力。

In 1961 the Brits revolutionised baking again – developing the “Chorleywood bread process” – where high-speed industrial mixers blend together flour, water, fat, salt, yeast, and vitamin C. This technique, which is how 80% of British bread is produced today, allows it to go from flour to a sliced, packaged loaf in an amazing three and a half hours.
1961 年，英国人让烘焙技术发生了翻天覆地的变化——他们发明了“乔利伍德烘焙法”——用高速搅拌机把面粉、水、油、盐、酵母、维生素 C 混匀。现如今，英国 80% 的面包是通过这项技术制成的。而这项技术的实现，使得在三个半小时内，将面粉变成切片包装好的成品面包成为了可能。

One of the reasons that bread is so popular is that it’s highly nutritious. It contains protein, carbohydrates, magnesium, iron, selenium, B vitamins, and dietary fiber. But it’s also very very tasty, and writing this article is making me hungry, so now I’m off to eat some bread. Bye!
面包风靡全球的一个原因是它的营养价值高。面包富含蛋白质、碳水化合物、镁、铁、硒、维生素 B 和膳食纤维。再加上面包真的太美味了，而且我（Duncan Geere）撰写这篇文章也把我弄饿了，所以我先溜去恰点面包。回见！

【Jaanai 译自官网 2021 年 02 月 25 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Bread；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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