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Bread is a product of nature and culture, basic food and metaphor, a symbol of success and decline, power and powerlessness? Permanent connection to the desired transient and eternal life. Bread is the common denominator of all civilizations and cultures that have developed, and went on going, and whose origin is Mediterranean. On bread are created and dynamited empire, culture and religion. And so it is already more than six thousand years. Just about writing the author of this exciting and meaningful secular and sacred history of bread. In a completely unique way Hajnrih Eduard Jakob narrative history of the world through the theme of bread, so simple and close to every reader, it is interesting and exciting, the book reads like a great novel.
It is particularly interesting that the first edition of the book has appeared 1944th in the United States, second revised after ten years, and to act, despite the flow of time from half a century, and many new insights, it is not lost on current events, the significance and instructive.
Balkankult Foundation has invested great effort to this important book is first published in Serbian language.