Are you hungry? Would you like some alligator eggs? What about strawberry ice cream? Raw meat in red-pepper sauce? Maybe a few fried ants?
Do those sound tasty or terrible? It all depends on who are and where in the world you live.
Everyone, everywhere, must eat to live. But what people eat, how they cook their food, and even they eat can be very different.
Do you eat bread? Most people in the world do. In fact, bread is the world’s number-one food choice.
Bread is made from grain, such as wheat, maize, oats, barley, rye, or rice. First, the grain is mixed with other ingredients, which may include water, salt, and yeast, to make a dough. Then it is baked.
Bread comes in all shapes and textures. It can rise and be fluffy, like yeast breads or quick breads, or it can lie flat as a pancake. It can be shaped in a loaf, twisted into doughnuts, rolled into rolls, or cut into crackers.
Soft or crusty bread is preferred in Europe, the U.S.A., and Canada, but flat bread is common elsewhere. In Mexico, people eat flat cornmeal or wheat tortillas. In China, thin rice bread is wrapped around other foods. In India, the flat chapatti is baked from ground wheat. In Turkey, a pancake-shaped pita makes a tasty pocket for meat and vegetables. Crusty, long, thin baguette loaves are popular in France. Dark, chewy rye bread is a favourite in Russia and Germany.
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