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BREAD AND SHAKESPEARE

Serbia, Vila Čortanovci, from 3 to 6 July

During the 12 years of the International Shakespeare Festival, before each performance, the actors and organizers break a traditional large bread loaf on stage with the wish of welcome and a successful performance at the festival. Bread bakes and participates in this already traditional ritual by Dimitrija Vujadinović. .

06 July 2025 | more... »

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"Bread in the Bible: Ethical Verticals" by Dimitrije Vujadinović

AI Review

The exploration of themes within the Bible is a rich and age-old tradition, and in this essay, "Bread in the Bible: Ethical Verticals," Dimitrije Vujadinović attempts to engage with the oft-overlooked symbol of bread. The work purports to illuminate the depth of metaphorical and ethical significance that bread holds in biblical literature, endeavoring to surface insights that might otherwise be neglected in theological discourse. 

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02 July 2025 | more... »

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EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK: SECRETS OF CONTINUITY - GRAIN MILL

RTS Club, Belgrade - Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Presentation of the monograph "Secrets of Duration - Grain Mill" and opening of the exhibition "Stories about Mills and Millers" by Dimitrije Vujadinović.

The following will speak at the opening of the exhibition: Matija Bećković, writer and academic, Prof. Dr. Miladin Ševarlić, Miroslav Stefanović, journalist and publicist, Saša Srećković, museum advisor at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade and Dimitrije Vujadinović, author of the exhibition and monograph. .

18 June 2025 | more... »

The BREAD IN LANGUAGES PROJECT

A call for cooperation

Respected colleagues,

 

We would be very grateful if you could help us professionally. Now we are doing research on the etymological and semantic meaning of the word bread in the languages ​​of the peoples of the world. Words and concepts have their own paths (as well as detours), sometimes unfathomable connections, through which we discover accumulated experience, because no word, like life itself, is unequivocal. 

 

Your help in the form of a short text about the etymology and meaning of the word bread in your language would mean a lot to us. For example: English- bread comes from the word to break, but it is also used in the meaning of money, family breadwinner, etc. The Turkish word for bread - ekmek also means to sow, etc. Albanian word for bread - boca means mouth full of food, etc.

 

We have been researching the history and culture of bread for more than three decades. The project was started in the mid-nineties of the last century as part of the international research European Food Project within the European Institute for Cultural Policy and Art Research (ERICarts) from Bonn (Germany). In the meantime, the Project on Bread received the status of an International Program.

 

With respect,

Mr. Dimitrije Vujadinovic, author of the project

Expert of IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism, Barcelona)

breadmuseums@gmail.com, dimvu3@gmail.com

  

- Gourmand Awards FOOD CULTURE Winners by Countries 2023

The Gourmand Awards offer here for 2023  www.cookbookfair.com 

Your Bread Museum Atlas won at the Gourmand Awards in Umea, Sweden. You are Number 3 in category E08 Bread.    Edouard Cointreau, Chairman of the Awards Committee

 

“There is not a thing which is more positive than bread”. Dostoevski

Bread Cultural Heritage

LA CULTURE DE PAIN  

Bread is one of the greatest discoveries of human beings! There is no doubt that Bread is the most present food at table wo

rldwide. But, Bread is not only food, it is a symbol of spirituality and reflection of cultural traditions. The secret of Bread lies in its true gastronomic, spiritual and cultural uniqueness. Religious Breads are present in every period of human life, from birth to death, end even after death. The story about  Breads is a story about the ethical and symbolic life of humans which has always been actual! Because of that this story should not be forgotten! 

Bread and Culture - World's Heritage is envisaged as a mosaic programme of research, information and educational projects, taking also into account the symbolical role Bread plays in our religious, cultures and everyday life. With those aims in mind we started to work on various long-term projects. 

The programme is officially a subsidiary  project of the "European Food Project" of ERICArts (European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts) http://www.ericarts.org/web/projects.php?aid=62&al=&rid=999.

The programme has established a collaboration with:

 Internationa Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism - IGCAT
 Centre de Recherche et d`Etude de la Boulangerie Et des Ses Compagnonnages CREBESC
 The project  "Les civilisations du pain.