Bread.

When a man went hunting his woman was hungry and she had nothing to eat. She took an ear of corn and she bit several grains off and discovered that they were quite good. Perhaps the history of bread began like that, at the day when people discovered the taste of a grain of rye, millet or wheat.
Then Egyptians could sow and collect corn. After harvesting corn they allowedthe grains to dry, after that they smashed them in a mortar, listening to a tune played on a flute as making a dance and then knead cake with their feet. Bread was very valuable as it was used as payment for the workmen as money for Pharaoh as food taken in out of space. Its duty was to feed with its wonders.

Greeks said that the Egyptian habit to knead cake with feet is a nonsence. They had other ways to make cake with honey and rolls with raisins. Every year in September that treat would remind them of a myth about Prozerphyna, daugther of goddness Demeter, kidnapped by the king of an underground country. Similary as a grain of corn she must be underground every winter, every spring she came back to the surface like an ear of corn on the field.

Flourmills to mill flour appeared in the Middle Ages and they became a place of meeting, milling flour, talking, dealing with things, exchanging news. At the beginning of the XVII century there was bread on every table. Poor people were satisfied with rye,the rich ate wheat bread. Rich people ate it solemnly on a plate made from bread and after finishing their feast they gave it to poor people.

Today we have fresh bread of different shapes which is made from different kinds on flour. Flourmills were improved and mashines require only one person. Previously entire families worked. We can choose white or black bread with diffrent kinds of additions for example with sunflower or with poppyseeds. Bread is produced from: different sorts of flour, yeast, water, milk, fat, salt and sugar.
Today we can’t imagine our life without bread.