The word "millet" appears in literature with a diversity of uses—sometimes as a literal staple of food and ritual, and at other times as a symbolic or metaphorical reference. In several texts, millet is depicted as an essential grain used in everyday sustenance and ceremonial meals: writers describe its transformation into cakes, puddings, and broths that are central to local and religious rituals [1, 2, 3, 4]. In other passages, millet is part of inventories of cultivated crops and diets, emphasizing its status as a common, nourishing food across cultures, whether among the industrious farmers of historical accounts [5, 6] or in the exotic descriptions of travel literature [7, 8, 9]. Meanwhile, the name "Millet" itself also carries artistic and personal significance, as seen in the repeated allusions to the paintings of J. F. Millet, which are celebrated in poetic prose for their aesthetic and cultural value [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. This multi-faceted use of the word illustrates both its everyday practicality as a foodstuff and its metaphorical extension into the realms of art and symbolic expression.