The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to bread:

Bread is a baked food product made from water, flour, and often yeast. It is a staple food across the world, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diets. It is one of the oldest human-made foods, having been of significance since the dawn of agriculture, and plays an essential role in both religious rituals and secular culture.

Bread can be described as all of the following:

• A type of food
  • A type of staple food

• Beer bread
• Biscuit
• Bread pudding
• Bread roll   (list)
• Breadstick
• Bun   (list)
• Cake   (list)
• Cheese bread
• Cornbread
• Flatbread
• Fruit bread
• Multigrain bread
• Pancake   (list)
• Pastry   (list)
• Potato bread
• Quick bread   (list)
• Rice bread
• Rice cake
• Rye bread
• Sandwich bread
• Soda bread
• Sourdough bread   (list)
• Sprouted bread
• Sweet bread   (list)
• Sweet bun
• Unleavened bread
• Waffle
• Wheat bread
• White bread
• Whole wheat bread
• Yeast bread

• Asian bread
  • Indian bread   (list)
  • List of Indonesian breads
  • List of Pakistani breads
  • List of Palestinian breads
  • Israeli breads
• European bread
  • List of British breads
  • List of French breads
  • List of Greek breads
  • List of Italian breads
  • Bread in Spain
    • Galician bread
  • List of Swiss breads
• North American bread
  • List of American breads
  • Mexican breads
• South American bread
  • List of Uruguayan breads

• Jewish bread
  • Jewish Ashkenazi breads
  • Mizrahi Jewish breads

• List of quick breads
• List of bread rolls
• List of sourdough breads
• List of sweet breads

• List of brand name breads

• Breadcrumbs
• Croutons
• Toast

• List of bread dishes
• List of sandwiches
• List of toast dishes

• Baker's yeast
• Flour

• Water

• Bread knife
• Bread pan
• Bread truck
• Oven
  • Clay oven
  • Masonry oven
• Muffin rings
• Muffin tin
• Toaster

History of bread

• History of California bread

• Baking

• Bread Bakers Guild of America

• Modernist Bread - Five-volume set on bread science and techniques by Nathan Myhrvold

• Lists of foods
• Outline of food preparation

• Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes by Jeffrey Hamelman. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
• The Taste of Bread by Raymond Calvel. Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, 2001.
• Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza by Ken Forkish. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2012.
• Tartine Bread by Chad Robertson. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010.
• The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2001.
• The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1970.
• Beard on Bread by James Beard. New York: Knopf, 1973.
• The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
• Modernist Bread by Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya. Bellevue: The Cooking Lab, 2017.