On March 20th, World Flour Day
recognizes the importance of flour in our daily diets and our health. In every
part of the world, products made from flour provide daily sustenance for
billions of people.
Flour is the main ingredient in
delicious foods like pasta, cakes, pastries, bread, and biscuits. For
thousands of years, humans have consumed grains ground into flour. Ancient
humans gathered the oat kernels growing wild around them. Using a stone tool much
like a pestle, they crushed the kernels into a coarse flour.
Today, we continue to enjoy many
varieties of domesticated grains. In the Northern Hemisphere, many farms
prepare to plant these grain crops around March 20th. The earth is warming and
ready to grow. In the Southern Hemisphere, autumn has arrived. The grains have
ripened, and harvest is beginning.
The day honors the farmers and
millers, shippers and truckers, processors and bakers who bring the white gold
to our tables. It’s a day for gratitude, and one of hope as the seeds are sown,
and harvests are reaped.
HOW
TO OBSERVE WorldFlourDay
WORLD
FLOUR DAY HISTORY
The Flour
World Museum founded World Flour Day on March 20th in 2019 to
celebrate the global significance of flour in our daily lives. In 2019, the Registrar at National
Day Calendar proclaimed World Flour Day to be observed on March 20th, Annually.
ABOUT
THE FLOUR WORLD MUSEUM
The Flour
World Museum in Wittenburg near Hamburg, Germany, has set itself the
goal of creating a monument to flour in all its globe-spanning significance.
After all, some 750 million tonnes of wheat flour are harvested each year and
turned into a wide variety of foods.
|Source: Online/TA
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