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3 unusual facts about Bread


Economy of Bács-Kiskun

Among the industrial companies operating in the area of Baja are UNILEVER Rt. producing deep frozen products, the Bread factory of Bácska Sütoipari Rt., the abattoir of DÉLHÚS and the Pannonia Brewery.

Staff of Life

Bread, a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and possibly more ingredients

The Kendalls

The duo signed with Dot Records in 1972, and released an album and two singles, "Two Divided By Love", (a cover version of The Grass Roots' pop hit) and "Everything I Own", a cover of Bread's 1972 hit.


Acme Bread Company

While riding his bike through England during a summer trip to Europe he bought English Bread and Yeast Cookery, Elizabeth David's 1977 book on breadmaking and bread history.

Altındağ, Ankara

Altınpark - A large park, formerly a golf course, noted for its 10 metre high statue of a loaf of bread at the entrance; contains a fairground, go-karting, ice-skating, large pools for boating and fishing, the Feza Gürsey Science Center, and much more.

Am Mellensee

They will provide the bread for the Communion wafers during the Eucharist for Papal Masses at Erfurt's Cathedral and in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for his September 2011 visit- his third as Pope- to Germany.

Baker percentage

Baker's percentage is a baker's notation method indicating the flour-relative proportion of an ingredient used when making breads, cakes, muffins, and other pastries.

Booji Boy

His only album appearances are the song "Puppet Boy" from Shout, Devo's cover of "Bread and Butter" by The Newbeats and a re-recorded vocal track to the early demo "U Got Me Bugged," which appears on the soundtrack to Adventures of the Smart Patrol (performed by Pat Tierney instead of Mark Mothersbaugh).

Bread and Freedom Party

The Bread and Freedom Party (Eish we Horria) is a socialist party in Egypt created by former members of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Ethan Snow of the UNITE HERE labor union expressed the continuity of the labor struggle by linking the Occupy Wall Street Movement's "99 percent" slogan to the 1912 strikers and to the plight of modern laborers in Lawrence: “One hundred years ago, workers took a stand against the greed of the 1%. Today we are faced with a similar situation in Lawrence, and we too will take up the fight for current day Bread & Roses.”

Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.

Breaking bread

Fractio Panis, literally "Breaking of the Bread" (Latin), a fresco

Bush bread

Ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills survived on bush bread for some time after they ran out of rations due to the death of their camels.

Ceuthophilus

Items observed in the diets of Ceuthophilus species include jelly, tuna, rancid liver, American cheese, pet food, oatmeal, wheat germ, peanut butter, molasses, wild fungi, persimmon, bread, dead and living insects, insect eggs, arachnids, dead bats, dead ring-tailed cats, and human feces.

Cream tea

The exact origin of "cream tea" is disputed, although there is evidence to suggest that the tradition of eating bread with cream and jam already existed at Tavistock Abbey in Devon in the 11th century.

Criterion of multiple attestation

The words attributed to Jesus on the bread and wine during the Last Supper (found in Mark, Paul, the Didache and arguably in John) and on divorce (found in Mark and Paul) are examples of sayings that are multiply attested.

Denver sandwich

A Denver sandwich, also known as a Western sandwich, consists of a Denver omelette (consisting of at least ham, onion, green pepper, and scrambled eggs), sandwiched between two pieces of bread.

Erica Johnson Debeljak

She has published a number of books both in Slovenian and English, including two memoirs (Foreigner in the House of Natives and Forbidden Bread), a biography of Srečko Kosovel titled Srečko Kosovel: Pesnik in jaz, and a novel Anti-Fa cona.

European Bread Museum

The Europäisches Brotmuseum e.V. Ebergötzen (European Bread Museum of Ebergoetzen), in South Lower Saxony, Germany, is a rurally located museum dedicated to the historical development of breadmaking and related subjects in Europe.

Excel mobile phones

The phone cost around £2500 when first launched and some owners were Terence Trent Darby, David Steel, Joan Collins and Jonathon Morris from the popular Liverpool-based TV show Bread.

Farinata

Elsewhere in Italy (traditionally in Tuscany, where it is called cecina (from the Italian word for chickpea, ceci), it is served stuffed into small focaccia (mainly in Pisa) or between two slices of bread, as it is traditional in Livorno.

Filo

"The Taste for Layered Bread among the Nomadic Turks and the Central Asian Origins of Baklava", in A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (ed. Sami Zubaida, Richard Tapper), 1994.

Five grains

Matzo or Matzah, unleavened cracker bread in Jewish cuisine regarding which "There are five grains that may not be used during Passover in any form except for Matzah"; see also Chametz

Food museum

They may explore a food made from a plant, for example, The Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany; a product such as the National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin; the art of food displayed at California's Copia; or historic farms, for example, Iowa's Living History Farms.

Franco Assetto

At the Bread Show at the Galleria della Bussola, Turin, in 1952 he presented the public with a number of Turin loaves cast in bronze, eight years before Jasper Johns thought of casting his two famous beer cans.

Henry S. Levy and Sons

The Levy's brand is now owned by Arnold Bread, a division of Bimbo Bakeries USA.

Indian Brethren

On March 9, 1899, following the Dublin example, four men congregated at the residence of Kuttiyil Mathai, Kumbanad, for the breaking of bread, without a priest.

Jeff Maysh

Jeff Maysh’s first book was published in November, 2007, ‘Brown Bread Fred’ is a ghost-written autobiography of London bank robber Freddie Foreman.

Joanna Phillips-Lane

Joanna Phillips-Lane is a British actress who among other parts, played the character Roxy in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread.

Judicial system of post-Napoleonic France

In Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean receives a sentence of five years hard work in the galleys for the small crime of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's children.

Julian Moreton

These hardships are recorded in Moreton's book and in Bishop Edward Feild's reports to the S.P.G. For example, one account records Moreton visiting Deadman's Bay some 30 miles away from his home, walking for 16 miles along the shore, living on bread and butter with salted fish alone, and expecting only two good meals in nine days.

Kupua

In the legend of the bread-fruit tree, Papa, one of the ancestors of the people living in all the islands now known as Polynesia, is described as a kupua.

Migas

They are usually made with leftover bread, either wheat bread traditionally associated with the Alentejo region in Southern Portugal, or corn bread as used in Beira.

Mimi Fariña

Fariña used her connections with the folksinging community to elicit help in her focus with Bread and Roses, including Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Odetta, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal, Lily Tomlin, Carlos Santana, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others.

Native Nod

Native Nod were an emotive hardcore band formed in the early '90s based in the New York / New Jersey area where they'd often play shows. In their short lifetime as a band they only released 9 songs, divided amongst the 3 seven inch EPs Bread, Answers, and Lower GI Bleed.

No-knead bread

In 2007, authors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe François published Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which uses a no-knead method of stored and refrigerated dough that is ready for use at any time during a 5 to 14 day period.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business.

One New Change

It is bounded by Cheapside to the north, Bread Street to the east, Watling Street to the south, and New Change to the west.

Pandanus amaryllifolius

The characteristic aroma of pandan is caused by the aroma compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which also gives white bread, jasmine rice and basmati rice (as well as bread flowers Vallaris glabra) their typical smell.

Poor Knights Islands

The islands' name is said to derive from their resemblance to Poor Knight's Pudding, a bread-based dish popular at the time of discovery by Europeans.

Raymond Calvel

He was Julia Child and Simone Beck's teacher for the bread chapter of Mastering the Art of French Cooking volume 2, as well as an advisor to the Bread Bakers Guild of America during its founding and early competitive efforts in the early 1990s.

Roberto Díaz Herrera

Born seventh of nine siblings in Santiago, the capital city of the Panamanian province of Veraguas, Roberto Díaz was raised by his parents Anastacio Díaz Jiménez, who was a teacher, and his beloved mother Gregoria Herrera, who worked as a housewife and sold bread and desserts at a local store.

Sally Lunn bun

A Sally Lunn is a type of enriched yeast bread associated with the city of Bath in the West Country of England, known since the late 18th Century and described by Eliza Acton's as a version of "Solimemne - A rich French breakfast cake, or Sally Lunn".

Sanjurge

Sanjurge, and its surrounding areas are known for their crops and hard work but the two things that they are really known for is Presunto, a smoked ham and their Folar, a type of bread with different kinds of meat in it.

St Mary's Church, West Chiltington

These architectural features allowed worshippers in the aisle to see the bread and wine being consecrated during the Celebration of the Eucharist.

Stracciatella

As translated by Jeremy Parzen, Martino's recipe for zanzarelli reads: "To make ten servings: take eight eggs and a half libra of grated cheese, and a grated loaf of bread and mix together. Then take a pot of meat broth made yellow with saffron and place over heat; and when it begins to boil, pour the mixture into a pot and stir with a spoon. When the dish has begun to thicken, remove from heat and serve in bowls, topped with spices."

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

Stevns, founder of the company which makes Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel.

The Books of Homilies

Before the English Reformation, the liturgy was conducted entirely in Latin, to which the common people listened passively except twice a year during Communion, when only the consecrated bread was administered.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

The story moves ahead, with Ben (Adrien Brody) visiting Neal, waking him to tell him about the fabulous story of how he got a loaf of bread for saving a lady’s cat.

Tikhvin

Other industrial enterprises in the town include the manufacturing of furniture for IKEA, a construction company, a wood-chemical plant (producing rosin, resin, turpentine, and other such wood-based chemicals), a meat-packing plant, a dairy plant, a bread factory, and other light enterprises.

Victor McGuire

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964) is an English actor currently playing the Valco security guard in Trollied but is perhaps best known for playing Jack in series 1–3,5-7 of Carla Lane's Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in Goodnight Sweetheart, and Sean Hughes' neighbour Tony in Sean's Show ("the kind of guy you can ask to build you a shed").

Wasabröd

It started exporting bread in the 1940s, with the first foreign subsidiary founded in Denmark in 1965 and the first foreign bakery built in Celle in Germany in 1967.


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