Monday, May 11, 2009


Now you could'nt have toast without bread. Bread is one of the oldest foods out there. It is the staple food for many countrys and some eat it with every meal. For example in morocco they have bread with every meal as they use it as their knife and fork to pick up the food, to dip the bread in the food or to have something dry with the food.

Bread comes in many forms, in loaves which is used to toast in the toaster, grill or fire. The traditional moroccan bread is flatbread which is round and they make many and put it in a basket and pass it round the table. Bread can come in different colours and types eg. white, brown, seeded or seeded brown.

Friday, May 8, 2009


This a video on toast. Doesn't have much to do with geography but i enjoy it none the less

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Toast geography


This i found at http://www.wholepop.com/features/toasters/toasthistory.htm.
It is how toast was created and the background story behind it.






"Without bread, there would be no toasters. It was about 6,000 years ago that the Egyptians invented fluffy bread as we know it. Before that bread was unleavened, flat and hard. Egyptian bakers somehow discovered that kneading the dough with their feet made the dough rise because of the natural yeasts between their toes. (It's believed that the discovery of cheesemaking had a similar foot-note in history. Grilled cheese, anyone?) This softer bread was so valued that Egyptian workers were paid in bread at the end of the day, making them the first breadwinners.Making toast came along soon after. Originally begun as a way of preserving bread, toasting was very popular among the Romans who gave it its modern name ("tostum" means scorching or burning) and spread toast throughout its empire from Africa to Britain. Methods used in pre-electric times involved direct flames or hot stones.The first electric toaster appeared in 1909. It toasted one side at a time and wasn't automatic — when the toast looked good to you, you pulled the plug. Ten years later, Charles Strite finally invented the modern, timer-activated, pop-up toaster. The innovation of pre-sliced bread from Wonder in 1930 advanced toasting technology all the further — consumers bought 1,200,000 toasters that year. "




Some might call this the golden brown age.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Toast Bible


This is a quote i found from the toast bible

In the beginning, there was void. Then God created the heavens and the earth, and God said "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God said the light was good, and separated the light from the dark, and the day from the night. Then God said "Let there be bread", and there was bread, and it was baked by the head of the sun, and turned a golden, crispy brown, upon which God could melt whatever condiments he shall choose. And God separated the toast from the bread, and saw that they both were good.

http://www.yip.org/smarry/yip/toastbib.html

Monday, April 27, 2009

Toast Geography

I like toast. And this page is for all you out there who like the bread that has been toastered, who enjoys the buttery goodness and likes to create it in the toaster in the oven and on the fire.