Cum ne modelează propriile creații: cultivarea orezului ne face mai altruiști, cultivarea grâului, mai egoiști

Studiul științific despre care voi vorbi astăzi are ceva din doctrina alchimică. În această doctrină, munca depusă pentru transformarea materiei se răsfrânge asupra celui care o practică, prin transformarea spirituală a practicantului. Orice transformare a materiei de către om este corelată cu o transformare a omului însuși. Astfel, căutarea alchimică devine o cale a transformării... Continue Reading →

23 April 2024 0

A bacterium that loves the Church strikes again: bread that turned into blood puts the Catholic Church in India on edge

An apparently supernatural event has unsettled the local community and the Catholic Church in a village in India, according to local press reports. The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Chekiye village reported that a piece of sacred bread (used in the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist) transformed into a liquid resembling blood. The... Continue Reading →

27 March 2024 1

The World’s Oldest Leavened Bread Discovered

Perhaps the most significant beginning-of-the-year revelation is the shattering of the myth that the first bread was leavened in Egypt. Researchers at Necmettin Erbakan University (Konya, Turkey) have unearthed an 8,600-year-old "bread." The discovery was made near a structure identified as an oven at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük. The spongy residues, evaluated as leavened... Continue Reading →

11 March 2024 0

Dangerous Uniformity: The Threat to Diversity and Authenticity in the Food Industry

The times we live in are quite complicated. In the United States, one of the most dynamic companies in the market, King Arthur Baking Company, is experiencing firsthand the old saying that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." In short, the company not only produces and sells flour but is also involved... Continue Reading →

18 January 2024 0

Bread and sex

Unfortunately, modern food myths are not too kind to bread when it comes to sex. We researched how the English-language internet perceives the relationship between bread and sex, and the results are quite disappointing: white bread kills libido. It is very likely the main cause of premature ejaculation. However, no one explains the physiological mechanisms... Continue Reading →

4 January 2024 1

The first bakery that uses gloves in Iran

According to a study published in 2014, the hygiene and production practices in Iranian bakeries were quite precarious: only 6.4% of bakeries were considered at a good level, 27.9% at a moderate level, and 65.7% at a poor level. Perhaps this is why a YouTube user found it necessary to make an event out of... Continue Reading →

27 December 2023 0

Morile Banatului: o hierofanie ilustrată a sufletului românesc

A apărut, în urma unor eforturi personale pentru care merită toată admirația, monografia lui Radu Trifan, președintele Asociației Acasă în Banat, „Morile Banatului – Patrimoniul mulinologic al județelor Timiș și Caraș Severin”. Lucrarea este excepțional ilustrată și conține informații unice despre 410 mori din Banat. Dintre acestea, doar 20 % mai sunt funcționale, iar cca.... Continue Reading →

16 November 2023 0

Poveștile pâinii: cum a înnebunit pâinea un întreg oraș în 1951

Ziua de Joi, 15 august 1951, a început în Pont-Saint-Esprit, un orășel din sudul Franței, situat la 30 de km de Avignon (orașul antipapilor sau altera Roma), asemeni oricărei alte zi liniștie din istoria localității. Pe la 10 dimineața un fermier a pătruns în cabinetul medicului local, Dr. Hadar Gabbai, într-o stare de panică, pretinzând... Continue Reading →

17 October 2023 0

Bread and God: A Divine Connection

For me the most beautiful quote about bread is a reflection of Mahatma Gandhi: "There are people in the world so hungry that God can only appear to them in the form of bread." This quote concentrates all the symbolism that human society has projected on this food, which has become, in many religions, the... Continue Reading →