I dedicate this post to my dearest friends Simas and Audronė who run a bakery of Lithuanian bread in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Today I ate most delicious dark bread in Hotel Pušynas in Druskininkai, Lithuania. It is such a joy to have a piece of bread in own hands and appreciate its quality, fragrance and taste.

I have never baked bread myself, only cakes at most. My brother Vytenis used to bake when he was studying in USA. I remember visiting him and helping in the process and eating afterwards.

Banana Bread by Vytenis

My wife Lina in her childhood was helping grandmother shaping bread, before it was pushed in the oven.

Good friends Sarah and Gregou now in down-under Sidney are baking bread and have huuuge book of recipes I had pleasure to look though.

There is amazing quality of bread baked in Salantai town in Lithuania. Huge loafs of bread, enough for a family for a week.

Friend Jolita lived in the same dormitory as I in Denmark, and she shared her work at Danish Technical University on preventing bread to age, or to grow fungus.

Last Friday while driving for business I watched the following TED talk by Peter Reinhart from TASTE3 conference on bread baking. It made me excited, thinking and appreciating. I invite you to watch it as well and re-discover your own connection to what bread is to you and how it keeps transforming as it always did in material and spiritual way, along with technologies involved in making it tasty and healthy.

Note: Language sometimes can get too specific for non-native English speakers.

Thank you my life and the powers above for providing me with delicious bread today!