Historic Wars Through the eyes of Breads and Baguettes – Born of Web
At the basis of our diet for thousands of years, it bears testimony to the history of civilisation. As a spiritual symbol, it has accompanied feasts and religious rites. Depending on the whims of nature and military campaigns, bread has been a sign of opulence or misery, servitude or freedom; famine bread during the Middle Ages, hunger strikes on the eve of the French Revolution, black bread rationed during war, and post-war white bread.