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Interview Guideline

1. What does bread mean to you personally? What relationship do you have to bread?

2. Do you remember stories, or did you yourself experience a time in your childhood, when there was shortage of bread? How did one handle bread at that time? When and where was it?

3. What did bread mean for people during the war? Did people value bread more during the war than at other times? Do you have any memories connected with bread from these times?

4. How does one handle bread at home during the last decade? Do people respect bread as before?

5. How was bread kept so it stayed longer fresh? Does the way of keeping bread express something about the respect that people have for it?

6.What did one do in your childhood with hard or old bread?

7. What do you do at home with old or hard bread. Do you waste bread sometimes?

8. Do you think that also in the future (21 century), bread will be a basic food or will be replaced by some other food or artificial nourishment?

9. How was respect for bread shown in the past? Do you know some rituals , which were carried out before eating (all stood up, made sign of the cross, prayed, etc.)?

10. Does it still make sense today to pass customs and traditions onto new generations? Why?

11. Does the subject bread appear in proverbs, prayers or sayings about bread? I(s here bread celebrated or damned?

12. Which kind of bread did you eat in your childhood and youth and which do you like the best today?

13. Is there in your region a "Standard" bread? Why does one call it so?

14. Was bread baked at home or at the baker in your youth? Do you remember times, when bread was prepared at home and then baked at the baker?

15. Were differences in the breads in the shape, size and type of flour? How big was the usual bread and what was its shape?

16. Did you buy bread more often at the baker, or was it baked at home? About which time do you speak in relationship with bread? Was bread served every day fpr breakfast?

17. What respect and importance had the bakers trade in your youth and childhood? Do you have some personal memories about the baker, the bakery and the bread they baked?

18. How was it with the baker profession after the war? Did the profession during the years loose on importance? Did the production of bread fundamentally change?