Bread and salt

Bread and salt, a traditional Slavic greeting.

Bread and salt is a Slavic welcome greeting ceremony and also a type of food.

When important, respected, or admired guests arrive, they are given a loaf of bread placed on a rushnik (embroidered towel). A salt holder or a salt cellar is placed on top of the bread loaf or secured in a hole on the top of the loaf. In modern Russia, on official occasions, the "bread and salt" is presented by young women dressed in national costumes (e.g., sarafan and kokoshnik).

When this tradition is observed in spaceflight, small packages of bread and salt are used.

Bread And Salt Media

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  The opening of new production facilities of Plastchim in Botevgrad, Bulgaria. Todor Zhivkov is welcomed with bread and salt

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  Waiting for the bride and groom with the bread and salt in Poland

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  Bread and salt ceremony in Moldova

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  Serbian woman with bread and salt

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  President of Israel Chaim Herzog welcomed by the Samaritan Community with bread and salt

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  Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and his Belarussian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky (from right to left) at the opening of a Russian national exposition underway in Minsk as part of the first Russian-Belarussian economic forum.

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  Vice President Joe Biden dips a piece of bread in salt as part of a welcoming ceremony upon his arrival in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 20, 2009.