A History of BreadFor a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of peoples daily calories, bread was the life source of Europe for centuries. In the middle of the 19th century, a third of household expenditure was spent on bread. Why, then, does it only account for 0. 8% of expenditure and just 12% of daily calories today? In A History of Bread, Peter Scholliers delves into the history of bread to map out its defining moments and people.