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BREAD CULTURE IN EUROPE "BREAD IN THE CHANGE OF TIMES: Past, Presence, Future" Elaborated by the Project Group "BREAD"

Under the topic "Bread in the change of times: past, presence and future", we decided to work together with senior groups in Europe . We wanted to investigate about the attitude and opinion of people towards bread. The facts should be found out with scientific methods of researches. A further target was to do this job together with seniors in European context.
Participants are male and female seniors from Czech Republic, Italy and Germany.
Under the topic "Bread in the change of times: past, presence and future", we decided to work together with senior groups in Europe . We wanted to investigate about the attitude and opinion of people towards bread. The facts should be found out with scientific methods of researches. A further target was to do this job together with seniors in European context. By means of a common guide line for conducting interviews we were to investigate about the experience of people with bread und to get to know their opinion and views about bread in the past and presence .
At the beginning there was a questionnaire with 50 questions, which was reduced by the group of Ulm to 15 questions, in order to receive a guide line for the interviews. We had the idea to make a qualified survey about what people in Germany in the past and presence are thinking about bread and how they did deal with bread and how they still do today.
We questioned 40 persons in the age between 50 and 90 years.
The interviews were conducted by 12 ladies and gentlemen of the project group "Bread" at Ulm after having passed a seminary of interview technique for the interviewers.
The selection of people to be questioned was at the discretion of the interviewers, there were no prescriptions for determined groups of ages, social classes, professions, women or men. Therefore the results cannot be classified as representative which by the way was not intended.
The results of the interviews were written down, but no recording on a tape recorder.
The evaluation was made by categorising the answers, whereby the frequency of categories was determined and we incorporated also quotations of the interviewed persons.
As we noted repetitions of the categories in the single questions, we limited ourselves to seven groups of questions.

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