Greek Innovations

Culinary historians credit the Greeks for developing bread baking into an art.

Proper front-loaded bread ovens originated in Ancient Greece.

The Greeks created a wide variety of doughs, loaf shapes and styles of serving bread with other foods.
Baking developed as a trade and profession as bread increasingly was prepared outside of the family home by specially trained workers to be sold to the public.

The Greeks also pioneered sweetbreads, fritters, puddings, cheesecakes, pastries, and even wedding cakes.

Often prepared in symbolic shapes, these products were originally served during special occasions and ceremonies.

By 300 AD, the Greeks had developed over seventy different kinds of bread.