FOURTH INTERNATIONAL BREAD FESTIVAL

Novi Sad, 20 – 26 September 2009

This international bread festival held in Novi Sad is an event that among other things brings together cultural, business and scientific aspects related to this 6000-year old foodstuff which became either part of nutrition or part of religious and traditional practices in most of the world nations.
The Bread festival held in Novi Sad celebrating bread and mill industry is a unique European event.
 All festival programs will take place in a week from 20 – 26 September. The Festival will start with cultural and scientific programs in the gallery and public spaces of the Sports and Business Center in Novi Sad, City Library, Cultural Center and the Food Technology Institute.
 In the last four days, the festival program will move to the Liberty Square (Trg slobode) in downtown Novi Sad to present the work of bakery masters. The stage will feature concerts, theater plays and other programs.
 The festival program will be divided in third sections: Bread – Cultural and Spiritual Heritage; Bakery Masters; Scientific – Professional Aspects.

BREADS OF THE IMMORTAL

New project

  Serbia’s particular wealth presents the bread preserved in the traditional culture of the Vlachs, the specific Romanophonic community that lives in the northeastern part of this Republic.In its everyday use, the bread with the Vlachs is modest like everywhere else, but in sacral rituals it becomes the luxury that is rare to be seen somewhere else. The role of the bread is particularly emphasized in the cult of the dead, where, on certain occasions, several hundreds of baked bread products can be found on the dining table at the same time! Such a ritual is called the pomana and is organized for the first time in the evening after burial (this pomana is called “cara”) and then it is organized seven days after death (“stamina”)..

PHOTO DOCUMENTS

Water Mills                                                                                      Bread in Egypt

                                     

 

BREADCULTURE /BALKANKULT ON IBA 2009