And I’ve gone from a funny, conversational writer/interviewer to a formal, slightly pretentious author. The other day I listened to a short book about pepper and today it’s a book about bread. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the scriptures to modern pop culture, Bread tells the story of how this ancient and everyday object serves as a symbol for both social communion and social exclusion. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict - sometimes literally, in the “bread riots” that punctuate European history, and sometimes figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class signifier. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of “breaking bread together” to the mysteries of the Eucharist. Genres: Non-fiction, Religion & Spiritualityīread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb.
Published by Bloomsbury Academic on July 28, 2016
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