Abstract
The reasons for its continual usage are not hard to find. It is a metaphor that has its origins deep in the human psyche and in the culture of primitive communities. Many psychologists have observed that cooking is frequently equated with the process of pregnancy and birth, and that the womb is the stove inside which the child is baked. The ancient gods such as Zeus were conceived of as millers and their consorts as mills; the human race was the product they ground and baked, and on a terrestrial scale, man and woman performed similar functions.2 An awareness of the significance of the metaphor accounts for the importance of grain in certain rituals in ancient Greece and Rome. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Greek historian and teacher who spent twenty-two years in Augustan Rome studying its language, customs, and history, observed:
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