National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day

September 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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Here are today’s five thing to know about Bread:

1. It takes 9 seconds for a combine to harvest enough wheat to make about 70 loaves of bread.
2. Each American consumes, on average, 53 pounds of bread per year.
3. An average slice of packaged bread contains only 1 gram of fat and 75 to 80 calories.
4. One bushel of wheat will produce 73 one-pound loaves of bread.
5. Breaking bread is a universal sign of peace.

Today’s Food History

• 1380 Charles V of France Died.
  * It was Charles V who commissioned Taillevent to write what would become the first professional cookery book written in France, ‘Le Viandier’.
  * Forks were mentioned in an inventory during his reign
  * Some believe that he died as a result of eating amanita mushrooms.
• 1630 Shawmut changed its name to Boston. If not for this, we might be eating Shawmut Baked Beans and Shawmut Cream…

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