In the next public talk of the Saturday morning series at Il-Ħaġar Museum, Dr Noel Buttigieg will discuss 𝐵𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑-𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑎. Bread was the most fundamental means of survival for the majority of early modern society. Like other Mediterranean communities, the eighteenth-century Maltese population was profoundly dependent on the acquisition, distribution, processing, and consumption of bread. The...