A 1946 plan to feed a billion people with sawdust

Alfred M. Thomsen had spent years at his San Francisco lab trying to grow edible yeast. The yeast grew, but every batch came out terrible. Then one day, a brew that should have been especially nasty boiled over onto his hand. — Read the rest The post A 1946 plan to feed a billion people with sawdust appeared first on Boing Boing.