National Homemade Bread Day Timeline

​1952

"It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread" ​

​Comedian Red Skelton apparently coined this phrase during a newspaper interview.

​1928

The mechanical age

​Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented a machine to slice bread.

​1300 AD

​Bread made an appearance

​The writings of Indo-Persian poet Amir Kushrau were recorded history’s first reference to bread.

​79 AD

​A volcano preserved Pompeii’s ovens

​Mount Vesuvius erupted, preserving both the Roman city of Pompeii, which had 33 bakeries, and its bakery of Modestus.

​2650 BC

​The art of bread

​Archaeologists found bas-reliefs, dating at least this far back, of Egyptians harvesting grain, likely for bread.