ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emergence and development of bakeries in the Old Kingdom of Romania (Moldavia and Wallachia) and their contribution to the dietary switch in peasants' diets from mămăligă. which is boiled cornmeal (maize) porridge, to bread. The study is relevant in view of the mechanism of the switch implying both a change in the ingredient of the basic foodstuff and in the technique of preparing it.
