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14 July 2025

A man places a loaf into an oven on a peel during the Ukrainian Bread Festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 13, 2025. Visitors witness traditional Ukrainian rituals performed at harvest.

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14 March 2024

An Iranian man is carrying bread while shopping for Iftar in southern Tehran on the second day of the holy month of Ramadan, at sunset, on March 13, 2024.

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28 October 2020

Traditional bread of the dead in Mexico City, Mexico on October 28, 2020. Every year on Dia de Muertos, Mexicans prepare to receive their deceased for whom they prepare an offering with food, drinks and decorations that remind them of it. One of the elements that is never missing for the offering as well as for eating in season is the traditional bread of the dead.On the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in the State of Mexico, is the town of Atlautla where, in an artisanal way, this bread is made. The Villanueva family has been making this delicious Mexican delicacy for 24 years that is seasonal and which, their orders grow year after year, so there are days that only sleep a few hours to continue working and finish them.According to history, the elaboration of this special bread dates back to the time of human sacrifices and the arrival of the Spaniards in what was then New Spain, in 1519. They say that it was a ritual in Mexico before the Conquest. It is said that when a princess was offered to the gods, her heart, still beating, was introduced into a pot with amaranth and then the person who led the rite bit the heart as a sign of gratitude to a god.The Spanish rejected this type of sacrifice and made a heart-shaped wheat bread dipped in sugar painted red, simulating the blood of the maiden. Thus arose the bread of the dead.

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#5638770

18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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#5638784

18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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#5638802

18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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#5638804

18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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18 April 2020

Traditional Egg Dyeing Egg dyeing and ritual bread baking are among the highlights of Orthodox Easter preparations in each Bulgarian family. It is a rule to dye the first egg in red, in keeping with the tradition, to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and His blood. When the first egg is ready, it is time to make a cross sign over the forehead of the family’s firstborn child. Usually Easter in Bulgaria is one week after the Catholic Easter. The day of Orthodox Easter is calculated in relation to the first full moon after the spring equinox, Varna, Bulgaria on April 18, 2020

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