Rustic...

Bread has always been a weakness of mine - I only eat rustic multi-grain breads - love the texture and taste! Yum!! My favorites - multi-grain (pictured), dark german, rye, pumpernickel, wheat pita...too many to name...all delish!


Random Bread Facts:

Each American consumes, on average, 53 pounds of bread per year.

An average slice of packaged bread contains only 1 gram of fat and 75 to 80 calories.

Assuming a sandwich was eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it would take 168 days to eat the amount of bread produced from one bushel of wheat. A family of four could live 10 years off the bread produced by one acre of wheat.

Early Egyptian writings urged mothers to send their children to school with plenty of bread and beer for their lunch.

Breaking bread is a universal sign of peace.

In 1997, Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 36.5 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves of bread.

Farmers receive approximately 5 cents (or less) from each loaf of bread sold.

Bread is probably the one food eaten by people of every race, culture and religion.

The "pocket" in pita bread is made by steam. The steam puffs up the dough and, as the bread cools and flattens, a pocket is left in the middle.

One bread superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's cradle, it will keep away disease.

The fastest "bun" in the West goes to a team of bakers from Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery who reclaimed the Guinness World Record in 1995. They harvested and milled wheat from the field and then mixed, scaled, shaped and baked a loaf in exactly eight minutes, 13 seconds.

Murphy's Law dictates that buttered bread will always land buttered-side down.

Bread is inexpensive. At an average cost of about $2 a loaf, bread is a strong nutrition value for the dollar.

Scandinavian traditions hold that if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf, they are bound to fall in love.

In Russia, bread (and salt) are symbols of welcome.

Superstition says it is bad luck to turn a loaf of bread upside down or cut an unbaked loaf.

Legend has it that whoever eats the last piece of bread has to kiss the cook.