We often eat bread and break bread together without giving it a thought. Here is a little food for thought:

• Bread is one of the only foods eaten by people of every race and culture.
• Breaking bread is a universal sign of peace. And, it is much healthier than smoking a peace pipe.
• The term “best thing since sliced bread refers to something good or useful.
• An Akkadian scribe wrote the first bread recipe on a clay tablet around 2,500 B.C.
• The word “bread” appears 360 times in the bible. If you don’t believe this fact, pick up the Bible and read it.
• Matzah is the Jewish bread eaten during Passover.
• Today there are over 4,500 different kinds of bread worldwide.
• White bread has significantly lower dietary fiber than whole grain breads.
• In 1912, Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first single loaf bread slicer machine. The first working model went into use in 1928.
• Irish Soda Bread does not use yeast to rise. Rather, baking soda is the rising agent.
• You can roll or wad up a piece of bread and use it to erase graphite. This “eraser” was used before rubber erasers were invented.
• The term “to know which side one’s bread is buttered on” means a person knows where their interests lie.
• NASA astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom onboard the Gemini 3 mission were the first to make a sandwich from bread while in space. 
• 50% of bread consumption is used for sandwiches.