| #1167284 in Books | Scott Cutler Shershow | 2016-07-28 | 2016-07-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .26 x.2 x5.53l,.0 | File Name: 1501307444 | 168 pages | Bread Object Lessons
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Warm, insightful, and a great gift!|By Ella Kaya|I loved this book. Like the other Object Lessons books that I've ready, this one combines personal recollections, human, literature, science, popular culture, and history. What emerges is a fascinating story about the history of bread and the powerful role that it has in our lives today -- culturally, environmentally, spirituall|||"Scott Shershow is a writer of beautiful sentences that convey the ambiguity of a thing we often take as a bland lump to be smeared with fats and oils. In prose as crystal as bread isn’t, and as sensual as it is, Shershow reveals how deeply political a
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. 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. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict - sometimes l...
