Photos: Ukrainian Bread Art

[Donkees]

[secondwind]

1. That photo of Biden with the girls..................

[Donkees]

4. In Kyiv 2009

'Vice President Joe Biden dips a piece of bread in salt as part of a welcoming ceremony upon the Vice President's arrival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 20, 2009.'

[secondwind]

2. I've never seen more beautiful bread in my life... ever!

[mitch96]

3. Yup, good enough to eat!!😁..nt

[Fla Dem]

5. What artistry, what talent, Goddamn Putin and his oversized ego for destroying all this.

[BComplex]

6. OMG! That bread is so beautiful!!

What talent!

[Bayard]

7. I could never eat those

I'd coat them in polyurethane and display them as artwork.

[Donkees]

8. The bread symbolizes the blessings of life, focusing positive energy as the bread is being created

for the well-being of those gathered in celebration and hope for the future. You are woven into that creation by sharing the ritual of beauty.

[electric_blue68]

9. Woah! 💖 I had no idea. And...

I'm half Ukrainian American who's visited Little Ukraine in NYC's East Village over decades! Never ever seen any.

Beautiful! 💖 Thank you!

[Donkees]

10. The Ukrainian Museum in NYC featured a workshop on these breads, and created a film:

Might not be the same as one created by beautiful Ukrainian village traditions, but I'm sure someone is making them in NYC

This film presents an instructional workshop on the art of baking and decorating a korovai at the Ukrainian Museum in New York City. It features Larysa Zielyk, a renowned specialist in korovai baking and ornamentation, and Lubow Wolynetz, an expert in Ukrainian traditions and rituals from pre-christian times to the present.

[electric_blue68]

11. Ah, very cool. Ty. The pysanka - many symbols have a pagan oiginal.

[Donkees]

12. They are deeply rooted in the Neolithic Trypillia cultural artifacts of that region ...

Human remains have mainly been recovered from Late CTC contexts6, and ancient DNA (aDNA) studies have so far only been performed on specimens from a Trypillian site called Verteba Cave in Ukraine (Fig. 1). A mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) study on eight Verteba individuals (3700–2900 cal. BCE) revealed in six cases maternal lineages typical of Anatolian and central European farmers. Two specimens had haplogroup U8b1 that may have been derived from European hunter-gatherers6,8. A subsequent genome-wide analysis in four males from Verteba (3900–3600 cal. BCE) confirmed the large Neolithic (~80%) and smaller hunter-gatherer (~20%) ancestry components9.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61190-0