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The oldest bread dates back to 14.500 years ago

• Charred fragments of bread baked 14.500 years ago in a stone oven have been found at a prehistoric site in northeastern Jordan. The discovery offers researchers a surprising hypothesis: people were doing…

The history of bread. The power of grains

A documentary film that takes us, for 45 minutes, on a journey through myths, legends and customs related to the history of bread and its cultural past as a formidable source of energy. The movie...

Testul, the oldest bread oven

• The test is one of the oldest systems in Romania for baking bread, used especially in the rural area in the south of the country. • The test preparation technique is similar to...

Festive aromas in the world

Fluffy, brown, aromatic, sweet and savory, with walnuts, raisins, shit, poppy seeds or cocoa, the cookies spread the scent of the holidays on any table. Whether we're talking about the Romanian cozonac, the famous panettone of the Italians,...

A story about bread and life

The history of Dencopan bread begins at the turn of the last century, with the baker Ioan Poiană. It was the 1930s and every night the baker from Turcheș kneaded and baked bread, and in the morning he loaded it into the cart and...

Chocolate, the gift of the gods

The first cocoa beans arrived in Europe in 1502. Christopher Columbus brought them back from the New World. Over 2000 years ago, however, the populations of the Americas of...

Capça, refined confections with flavors of history

Ortega Y Gasset defined the market as a hole tied at one end. In Bucharest, this connection was made on the last day of 1852, when the spectators attending the first play played...

The Joffre cake was invented at Capșa

At Casa Capşa, the custom was established that, at the festive meals offered in honor of certain personalities, a new specialty of the house, either confectionery or pastry, would be launched. Some remained...

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