Bread for Peace

The spring of 2020 saw grocery store shelves emptied of flour and yeast, while Google searches for bread recipes rose to all-time highs. The goal was, as with the 20th century baking industry's relationship to yeast, to be free from contamination or put more simply to maintain control. It was in this context when the world's collective stress was at its peak that men and women across the United States turned to bread for peace. We continue to live in the tension of bread as blessing and bread as curse.