World Flour Day is acclaimed and celebrated on March 20 every year. On this day, bakers, cooks, farmers, millers, flour professionals, and all of us will celebrate flour, also known as “white gold.” For some, flour is about sustenance, survival, and satisfying satiation and hunger; for others, it is about cultivating culinary creativity and creating the best food and goods for human consumption. Flour is made from various types of grains, such as amaranth, brown rice, buckwheat, barley, corn, millet, and rye. Bread, pasta, cakes, cookies, crackers, cereals, pastries, pies, pizza, and many other foods are made from flour.
For centuries, humans have consumed grains that were ground into flour. Flour was part of the human diet 32,000 years ago. Scientists found a tool much like a pestle that grinds stones in a cave called Grotta Paglicci in Puglia, Southern Italy. They discovered that it was used to crush kernels to make a coarse flour.
World Flour Day was created by the Flour World Museum on March 20, 2019, to celebrate the international importance of flour in people’s lives. It was authorized and proclaimed in 2019 by the Registrar of the National Day Calendar that World Flour Day would be observed annually on March 20. The date was chosen because it is in the midst of the equinox, which occurs between March 19 and 21, the time for seeding, planting, and spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn and harvest in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Flour World Museum in Wittenberg, Germany, opened its doors in 2008, and it houses the world’s largest collection of flour sacks, intending to remind and show people the magnificence of this simple yet vital basic ingredient. Many rooms are featured in the museum, and one central feature is the Sackotheque, which contains over 3,600 exhibits. The museum also aims to give tribute and show gratitude to the millers through its close ties with the International Milling Family. Their website invites anyone and everyone to tell their personal stories about “white gold,” also known as flour.
Source: Online/GFMM
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