Cultural change is an evolutionary process. People conduct many aspects of daily life in different ways, adapting according to outside influences as, gradually, everything changes—the methods and tools of work change; the conditions of work change.
Bread, however, is still a great unifier. Bread, in its multiple shapes and flavors, is a universal concept representing good food, and bakers use the ancient tradition of breaking bread to introduce new and borrowed influences to today’s bread products.