Turkish Airlines introduces really really old bread.....

Turkish Airlines Introduces the World’s ‘Oldest Bread’ to Select Business Class Flights

Turkish Airlines, has introduced ‘The Oldest Bread’ to its in-flight service menu, It is made of Einkorn and Emmer Wheats, which are considered to be the oldest types in Anatolia.

The menu item was officially introduced on flight TK3 flying from Istanbul to New York on September 22, 2024. During the flight, the carrier premiered a film which was shot in the Göbeklitepe, Karahantepe, and Euphrates River regions with the support of Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. 

Served heated and in a special bag with butter and olive oil before meal service, the bread will be available for Intercontinental Business Class passengers. Prepared fresh by the airline’s Istanbul-based catering company, Turkish DO&CO, The Oldest Bread received additional consultancy of award-winning Turkish culinary historians Ömür Akkor, and academic Çetin Şenkul.

On the recent inflight dining addition, Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee Prof. Ahmet Bolat stated: "As the flag carrier that offers the world's finest flavors to its guests and receiving numerous accolades for it from world-renowned organizations, we are pleased to introduce our business class travellers to the world’s oldest bread grown from the reproduction of ancient wheat discovered in excavations in the Anatolia region. With this bread, traditional to Turkish cuisine and significant to global culinary history, we aim to blend past and present together on our inflight guest experiences. We hope that our new menu item will be appreciated by our guests as we continue our award-winning leadership in the field of inflight dining."

The Oldest Bread is a Turkish Airlines project that reflects the history of Anatolian agriculture that began approximately 12 thousand years ago in the Taş Tepeler region. Considered one of the centres of the Neolithic Revolution, Taş Tepeler was the first time in history that human communities transitioned from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled, agricultural society, and wheat was domesticated in this area approximately 12 thousand years ago, and as a result, nutritional habits and social structures were reshaped.

Turkish Airlines continues to maintain its status as the airline with the world's best inflight dining concepts and globally recognized menus, including flavours from both traditional Turkish cuisine and world cuisines. Sourcing 80% of the products used in its menus from local producers, the airline’s in-flight dining offerings are prepared daily by expert chefs using the freshest products, in a boutique production style.