….Getting or eating or merely seeing a loaf of white bread signifies harshness and strife for any dreamer.….If someone dreams of eating white bread he will get profit sufficient for life’s sustenance. But if the bread is hot, he will…
Easter bread and the number 8
Symbols for warding off the evil influences and christian symbols play an important part in the Greek festive breads. In parts of Greece, the early Christian tradition of number 8, symbol of Jesus resurrection,* survived in the Easter breads. However,…
Ancient bread- baking method
My new baby, patiently waiting for me. My baby is a replica of a5th century pnigeus, a portable earthenware oven. Its name comes from the verb πνίγω, to choke, strangle. Hippo, a presocratic Greek philosopher, said that the heavens were like the dome of…
Ovens
And from a peculiar way of baking or roasting it, there is a loaf called ipnites (or the oven loaf) which Timocles mentions in his Sham Robbers, where he says — And seeing there a tray before me full of…
HAPPY NEW YEAR BREAD
Vasilopita (St. Vasilio’s pie) is a powerful new year’s symbol of fertility and good luck for the rest of the year.If nowadays in many occasions, we have transformed it into a big, sweet cake there are still Greek women who make…