World Bread Day is celebrated annually on October 16th to promote and enjoy bread. It provides an opportunity to learn about the history and importance of bread and bakers, both past and present. Bread is one of the most widely consumed foods worldwide, having been baked by humans for at least 30,000 years. It originated from prehistoric people cooking grain mixtures on heated stones to create a solid food. In Crete, a special type of bread called paximadi is made from natural ingredients and offers health benefits as well as being an important part of the island's culinary heritage.

1. World Bread Day
B2 •4th High school of Heraklion •20 October,2013
16th of October, World Bread Day
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2. Celebration on
Bread
World Bread Day wants to provide an opportunity to talk about bread and
bakers, to find out about their history, their importance as well as their
future.
October 16th is World Bread Day, a day to celebrate bread, to bake bread,
to eat bread, to buy bread from your local bakery, to promote good bread,
to teach someone to bake bread and finally to enjoy bread.
Bread is important for our life , and although for some of us it is
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3. something common and easy to have on everyday’s table for some
children it is hard to find.
Bread, in all its various forms, is the most widely consumed food in the
world. Not only is it an important source of carbohydrates, it’s also portable
and compact, which helps to explain why it has been an integral part of our
diet for thousands of years. In fact recent scholarship suggests humans
start baking bread at least 30,000 years ago.
Prehistoric man had already been making gruel from water and grains, so it
was a small jump to start cooking this mixture into something solid by
frying it on stones. A 2010 study by the National Academy of Sciences
discovered traces of starch (likely from the roots of cattails and ferns) in
prehistoric mortar and pestle-like rocks. The roots would have been peeled
and dried before they were ground into flour and mixed with water. Finally,
the paste would be cooked on heated rocks.
A special type of bread is the famous Cretan paximadi , made with natural
ingredients which offers the richness of cereals and the innumerable plant
fibers that are necessary for the proper function of the intestine.

4. Cretan paximadi is a valuable secret of health as well as an important
element of our gastronomic heritage. Bread of the poor, the shepherds, the
farmers and the sailors, paximadi may have encountered many
contradicting ups and downs; in some cases it was regarded as the bread
of luxury and in other cases, as the bread of need. Yet, it conveys through
time the rich experience and wisdom of the people who invented it and
produce it.
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