Bread - The World's Heritage

THE MIRACLE OF BREAD

Religious breads are present in every period of human life, from birth to death, end even after death. The story about religions 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!

The European Bread Book

There is an urgent need to prevent further losses of traditional bread recipes connected with cultural identity. One effective way of safeguarding the "bread heritage" is by collecting, recording, and archiving them.
Baking industry threatens that many old bread recipes become forgotten.
The project aims are: collecting recipes and cultural background of a typical bread preparing in different European regions, to analyze and show process of aculturalizations throw “bread routes” between European regions.
For those purpose original recipes for making bread, rolls and cakes from bread dough and their “cultural indentity cards” are being collected. The project aims are to prevent further losses of traditional recipes, to determine their impact on regional culture heritages and to show process of aculturalizations throw bread routes between European regions.
Help us to found out traditional bread recipes and their “identity card”!
If you know some, please write to us.

LECEDERS (LEBKUCHEN)

They belong to an old medieval craft typical of Central Europe. It is remarkable that the craft has survived and you can still buy red leceder hearts, honey cookies, necklaces with a cross, little crucifixes and other ornaments – all made of dough. Most of these products have their symbolic meaning often associated with a festivity (Christmas, Easter, courting, weddings etc.). The draft project anticipates that documentary material about leceders in Central Europe be collected by the end of 2012 and processed and published into an illustrated monography.

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”)..

Ex-libris - "BREAD - CULTURAL HERITAGE"

BALKANKULT FOUNDATION, ERICARTS INSTITUTE, ANKARA EX-LIBRIS SOCIETY,THE BREAD MUSEUM, Ulm and BELGRADE EX-LIBRIS CIRCLE, have decided to organize an international ex-libris competition on the subject of BREAD-CULTURAL HERITAGE, to support co-operation amongst persons active in culture and media, artists and entities world wide, and help develop communicational, professional and technical transborder artistic and cultural ties and independent exchange of information. NOTE ON THE WORK OF THE JURY - Ex libris