We know bread is really old! The Archeological record shows us that bread predates even the earliest mentions of it in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Ancient Greek texts, and even Sumerian...
Category: Bread History
Sometimes a food items that was mainly a slave food moves its way up to being a food that is loved throughout a group of people. This is very true for the Hoe Cakes of the South of the United States...
While Egypt was not the first bread maker, or may not have been the first maker of leavened bread, the improvements to the bread making process that Egypt made brought bread to be the star it now is...
Cornbread: American Staple Food with Branches Around the World
Maize, or Corn as we call it in America, is a staple crop of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America. This crop was used for much more than the sweet corn on the cob it has become...
Second to language, bread is the most influential innovation in human history. Without this innovation, many innovations we have now would not exist. Bread is seen is nearly every culture around the...
The 16th century physician, Thomas Moffett, said “Who was the first Authour or Inventer of making Bread, I will not take upon me to determine” (Moffett, 237). Well, I’m going to try to do just...