Bread!!!
A word of many meanings, a symbol of giving, a symbol of sharing, one food that is commom to so many countries, eaten by millions across the world... but what really is BREAD?
More than 12,000 years ago, primitive people made flat breads by mixing coarsely ground grain and water and then placing these 'cakes' in the sun to bake. Later on, bread was cooked on heated rocks or in the ashes of a burnt out fire.
It was the Egyptians who were credited with using a starter of wild yeast from the air that was kept and mixed with fresh dough and then cooked to create a leavened product. Legend has it that a slave in a royal Egyptian household forgot about some dough that he had set aside. When he returned, it had doubled in size. Trying to hide his mistake, the dough was punched down furiously and baked. The result was a BREAD, lighter than anyone had tasted. I cannot vouch for the veracity of this anecdote, but it does sound plausible.
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