![]() ![]() To know bread, he argues, one must work with it. For Shershow, bread is everywhere because it is a miracle, and miraculous because it is everywhere. Scott Cutler Shershow’s Bread, the newest entry from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, maintains this connection between food and work, insisting that the meaning of bread not be separated from questions of labor. It is striking that the shape of these laborers’ staple foodstuff so closely imitated the structure they spent their lives building. ![]() From the success of these experiments, Wood concluded that he had made the same type of bread that fed the builders of the pyramids. Hieroglyphic and archeological evidence inspired Wood to use flours made from ancient grains like emmer, and to bake in a unique vessel, the pointed conical mold known as the bedja. IN 1993, food historian Ed Wood traveled to Egypt looking to unearth the origins of bread. ![]()
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