Staff of Life

 

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods;

and good bread with fresh butter,

the greatest of feasts.

 

James Beard

 

 

Bread deals with living things,

with giving life,

with growth, with the seed,

the grain that nurtures.

It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.

 

Lionel Poilane

 

 

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know

that everyone else has a share,

and that no one starves while I eat.

Leo Tolstoy

 

 

The smell of bread baking,

like the sound of lightly flowing water,

is indescribable in its evocation

of innocence and delight.

M.F.K. Fisher

 

All sorrows are less with bread.

 

Miguel De Cervantes – Don Quixote