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  2. History of bread - Wikipedia

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    For generations, white bread was the preferred bread of the rich while the poor ate dark (whole grain) bread. However, in most Western societies, the connotations reversed in the late 20th century, with whole-grain bread becoming preferred as having superior nutritional value while Chorleywood bread became associated with lower-class ignorance ...

  3. Italian Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    Italian settlement Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo: Total population; c. 450,000 (by citizenship) [1] c. 32,000,000 (by ancestry, about 15% of the total Brazilian population) [2] [3] [4] However, it is important to note that there are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people since 1940.

  4. Bread in culture - Wikipedia

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    In Peru, bread has many variations due to the diversity of Peruvian cuisine. People usually eat pan de piso and pan serrano. There are also some kinds of bread made of potatoes; these are currently popular in the Andes. Bizcochos are sweet bread usually eaten with some butter and hot chocolate. A dough made with cooked pumpkin or squash, often ...

  5. List of foods named after people - Wikipedia

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    The pastry originated in the town of Hyères, where Massillon was born. Pâté chaud ris de veau à la McAllister – most likely, Samuel Ward McAllister (1827–1895) is the name source of the hot veal pâté Charles Ranhofer created at Delmonico's. McAllister was best known for his list of the 400 people he considered New York City society.

  6. Surname - Wikipedia

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    Italian Surnames, free searchable online database of Italian surnames. Short explanation of Polish surname endings and their origin Archived 15 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine; Summers, Neil (4 November 2006). "Welsh surnames and their meaning". Amlwch history databases. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012

  7. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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    Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.

  8. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    In India, surnames are placed as last names or before first names, which often denote: village of origin, caste, clan, office of authority their ancestors held, or trades of their ancestors. The use of surnames is a relatively new convention, introduced during British colonisation.

  9. Brazilian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Risoto is an Italian originated rice dish cooked with chicken, shrimp, and seafood in general or other protein staples sometimes served with vegetables, another very popular dish in Southern Brazil due to massive waves of Italian immigration. Mortadella sandwich is very common in São Paulo due to Italian immigration. Also noteworthy are: