Bread is the head of everything - says folk wisdom. It is one of the main foods and is always present in the human diet. So what is bread? Each people has its own concept of this product, but it is impossible to imagine a table and a meal without it. It doesn't matter if it's a fragrant French croissant, hot tandoor cake or the finest Armenian pita bread. Or maybe a lush loaf or fresh kalach... For people of different cultures, the word "bread" can mean quite different things. For some peoples, this is baking loaves or loaves of rye or wheat flour, for others - yeast or unleavened cakes from flour of various cereals: rice, oats, corn, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, sorghum, millet, dagussa, moghara, paiza, chumiza, amaranth, cassava... Absolutely all peoples of the Earth have their own version of bread, without which they cannot imagine hearty food. Read this small but very fascinating book, and you will learn that koloboks really baked in Russia, that the name "baton" came from the French word baton, which translates as "staff," that the oldest known find of bread made by archaeologists in Northern Jordan is about 14,000 years old and many, many more interesting.