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The question is asked how bread, the staple food in the Roman diet, was produced on an industrial scale to meet the needs of the half a million people who lived in Rome. It was produced in central bakeries, each containing many mechanical machines both for milling flour and kneading dough. Visits to the tomb of a famous baker named Eurysaces, on the outskirts of Rome and to Ostia shed light on the processes involved; there is also an experiment, using a model, to illuminate how a kneading machine might have worked.