"Bread and Butter" by Gayle Brandeis

for Michael I often wonder how people figured things out—simple things like bread and butter. How did the first person know to grind and knead and bake, to milk and skim and churn? How did someone realize they could soak olives in lye or let grape juice ferment inside casks of oak? How, when we first leaned toward each other, did our tongues know to touch before our brains knew we were going to kiss at all?