An excellent video here on how China adapted wheat as a foodstock. We in the west, alongside the great rivers and defended by cats, have leavened our wheat and baked the result as bread. In the east, once they got wheat (and cat): they steamed it into noodles and dumplings. We store the bread; they store the grains.
The video - from "Taste of Civilization" - takes pains to point out that neither way is wrong. The West-capital-W, which includes the Taklamakan east-Turkestan, had cheap heat energy. Europe, before and after Rome, had vast forests with a low population, so wood was cheap. China's population, despite the best efforts of barbarians and tyrants, didn't crash. As for Central Asia, I guess it just got naturally hot half the time such that baking tortilla in metal over the afternoon outside could keep through the winters.
Space habitats will be jealous for water in this gravity-well. I'm thinking we'll be on the Central Asian model: baked breads, and not leavened so-much. Out on Ceres and beyond, where water is cheap and energy expensive, we'll see more noodles and dumplings. (I don't rate The Expanse as serious.)
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