| abstract | - Bread was a type of food prepared by cooking a dough of ingredients and baking it in an oven. It had an outer crust and contained grain. Bread was enjoyed by a number of species. It was often served in slices. Once baked, it could subsequently be toasted. It could be topped with butter and various spreads, such as honey or jam. Humans considered bread a symbol of nutrition par excellence. The common expression "take bread out of someone's mouth" meant "deprive someone of livelihood." The Queen of Naboo Padmé Amidala once used that metaphor when she blamed Supreme Chancellor Valorum for allowing the Trade Federation to blockade her planet. The agricultural planet of Merisee was known as the "Bread-basket of Elrood sector.
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