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@Outpost Bravo: nothing to make! The bread isn't baked extra-salty or anything, we use our ordinary but very good bread. So, nothing to mess up. When I've visited others they sometimes have offered me a light flour bread like a Westerner might, but in my family we used a good wheat or rye, sometimes even a pumpernickel if the guest was a friend whom we knew preferred it.

For your purposes you can just pour some salt into the central recessed part of a dry saucer that normally would receive the bottom of a cup. That's not how we do it but all you're trying to do is see how it tastes. Now take a loaf of bread, preferably fresh-baked, and not pre-sliced (well, I've never seen it done with pre-sliced bread but maybe I'm behind the times). Please, don't get some nasty mass-produced bread for this! Our Ukrainian women know so many kinds of bread that will make your taste buds sing and dance, and compared to these or any other properly made bread, stuff like Wonder bread ("I wonder how anyone can eat that stuff?") and all the rest barely deserve to be called "bread". Tear off a decent-sized mouthful. Too small and you imply your host isn't generous! Take that mouthful of bread and dip it onto the salt in the saucer. Do you need to be told what you do next? :-) Now chew, feel the texture, taste the interesting flavours and smell the aromas of the bread. Notice the sensations developing in your mouth as you chew. A good bread will fill not just your mouth but your whole head with good sensations.

As for that silly pretzel, if you look at the video I linked you'll see what I mean. That thing will bake to cover a circle I'd guess to be about a foot across. But the technique is all that matters from it. Zyonn has his own recipe.

Now I'd better get going. Waitress, I'll have a thermos of Colombian coffee, black, to go. Thanks.