How ‘DougH’ you like youR bReaD?
BREAD IS CERTAInLY CELEBRATED. IT’S BEEn TuRnED InTo A TREnD WITH A PRETTY MERMAID ToAST. IT’S MADE ‘BREAD fACE’ An InSTAgRAM CELEB. IT’S LED To DEBATES In THE HEALTH CIRCLES — BRoWn VS. WHITE? HoW ARE You CELEBRATIng THE STAPLE DISH?
Gluten free, multi-grain, rye, paleo, and sourdough. Naan, ka’ak, and abud. Bread is a staple dish across households and cultures. There’s a kind for the health conscious, and also for those who don’t prefer watching what they eat. ‘White or brown?’ — you’re asked at the counter while placing your sandwich order. We’re eating bread all the time, and our bread meals are definitely not limited just to breakfast; a breaded fish fillet for lunch and an indulgent bread pudding post dinner. We’ve gone beyond the good ol’ conventional sandwich. It’s not only our daily meals that include bread, we’ve also begun using bread in our regular vocabulary. Do you know which side your bread is buttered on? Break bread with a friend, today!
The Middle East loves its bread. It’s a one-man army that can be relished on its own, but bread sure does enjoy some good company. Complete your cup o’ tea with Ma’arouk, a Syrian delicacy of a sweet and soft fragrant bread. With the fastpaced UAE work culture, an on-the-go style Lebanese Man’ousheh serves as the perfect breakfast and is best when topped with za’atar, labneh, cheese, and meat. It’s almost sinful to walk past a bakery on the streets of the UAE without indulging in a steamy hot bread treat.
Bread has also undergone a glamorous makeover in 2014 when a Spain-based bakery was rumoured to be selling bread loaves with a sprinkle of gold shavings. More recently, food stylist Adeline Waugh created the ‘mermaid toast’, a food trend on Instagram that splashed ocean-inspired colours on toast with beet juice, cream cheese, and spirulina. In 2015, the Internet was introduced to Bread Face, an unconventional blog that shared videos of a blogger smashing her face with different kinds of bread. The blogger reportedly translated her obsession for food onto Instagram and amassed over 1,80,000 followers.
Bread has been celebrated at various festivals and fairs globally, such as the Asheville Bread Festival, Artisan Bread Fair, and National Festival of Breads. How ‘dough’ you celebrate bread?
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Rye bread and multigrain bread are in demand because they are high in fibre and nutrients, and support a healthy lifestyle, which is increasingly becoming popular with the uAE consumer. Cornelia Suhr Chef de Cuisine, BQ Restaurant
There’s so much more to bread than just sandwiches. Some of my favourites are bread and butter pudding, cinnamon french toast, bread and potato fritters, mozzarella and tomato bruschetta, garlic and herb sticks, bread and egg frittata, and baked beef franks with multigrain bread. When I think of bread, I’m always reminded of one of my baking escapades; I set the baking temperature of sliced bread for bread rolls and ruined the dish. Rajender Singh Sous Chef, Dunes Delights