"Bread is everything to the head" is one of the most popular proverbs of our people. And not in vain, because without bread, not a single day of our lives. Even now, when many adhere to different diets and replace bread with low-calorie breads, biscuits, or crackers. And all because we really love bread and bakery products. And the bread has its own international holiday - World Bread Day, which is celebrated on October 16.
The history of the holiday World Bread Day
On October 16, 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was established. In 1950, the said organization proposed to approve the UN General Assembly on October 16 as World Bread Day. In 1979, at the insistence of the International Association of Bakers and Confectioners, the UN re-agreed the main holiday of bread on that day.
And the history of the emergence of bread began a long time ago. According to historical data, the first grain products arose about 8 thousand years ago. Outwardly, they resembled cakes and baked on hot stones. Ingredients for such tortillas were croup and water. Among historians there is no single version, as ancient people realized to bake the first bread. But it is widely believed that this happened by chance, when the grain mixture overflowed over the edge of the pot and was baked. Since then, mankind also uses baked bread.
World Bread Day is not the only holiday dedicated to the main product on our table. There are other special dates. For example, the Slavic holiday of the Bread Savior (the third Savior), which is celebrated on August 29 and is associated with the completion of the harvest of cereals. Earlier in the day, bread was baked from wheat of a new crop, illuminated and used by the whole family.
On World Bread Day, in many countries, there are various exhibitions of products of bakers and confectioners, fairs, master classes, folk festivals, as well as free distribution of bread to all needy.