Bread: A Staple of Society

"It's the greatest thing since sliced bread," "the bread maker" of the family and many more terms have been used to include bread. Bread has been on this planet for a very long time and from poverty to riches bread has always been resent. A staple and a comfort it's a mark of the times it has lived in.

Bread has a very long history and not one to easily find. After all, bread is very Universal and has been around before things were even written down in full length. It can most certainly be assumed that bread was found from the flour that mad the bread, produced from those grains and wheat which were around. Bread was started by necessity. It was needed to fill the stomachs and has always been economically possible.

Bread is a staple just like milk and it always has been. In those things which are consistent through all times are those things which we can look to for glimpses of that time. There are flat breads for the Roman legions to easily carry with them on their long treks. There are pita breads for the Greeks to ruminate on and start their own battles with. It was the crispy French bread that helped others to last on those long revolutionary nights. You see, when there was nothing else to eat bread sustained the masses. It also had the effect of creating warmth on cold night.

Then came the invention of the American white bread. With all the evolutions of bread, nothing was more famous than the use of preservatives. Bread could last longer and became part of the American lifestyles. Along with the creation of preservatives was the fabulous invention of pre-sliced bread. This brought the ability to deal out all those lunchbox sandwiches faster and cleaner than usual.

Every country has their own national history of bread, but that would take a whole epic novel and it is better left to a writer like Victor Hugo. In the meantime there is this article and that delicious piece of bread in front of you. Take a delicious bite of necessity.

"Classic White Bread"*