World Bread Day
World Bread Day is celebrated every year on October 16th. It is a day for celebrating bread and bakers, and drawing attention to this
food's health benefits and the efforts bakers carefully put in to make
them. It aims to heighten awareness on the nutritional value of bread
and the role this plays in the overall health of its consumers.
This day of bread is created by the UIB International Union of Bakers
and Bakers-Confectioners, an organization of bakers from across the
globe whose member countries include Germany, Brazil, Hungary,
Switzerland, Spain, and France - places where bread plays a prominent
role in the people's diet.
This day also celebrates the born of Oscar Wilde - an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.
ReplyDeleteOn October 16 Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863 - 1937) was born, the great British statesman known as the «Empire-builder», prime minister from 1937 to 1940, British foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929, who helped bring about the Locarno Pact (1925), a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by eliminating the possibility of border disputes involving Germany. The pact gained for Chamberlain a share of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1925.
ReplyDeleteSweetest Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes region, and parts of the Northeast United States, on the third Saturday in October. It is described by Retail Confectioners International as an "occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed."Sweetest Day has also been referred to as a "concocted promotion" created by the candy industry solely to increase sales of sweets
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