Bread for the living, bread for the dead : eight perspectives on bread from the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea / edited by Alexander Strecker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strecker, Alexander, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bread--Social aspects--Mediterranean Region.

Bread.

Bread--Social aspects--Black Sea Region.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Baking--Social aspects.

Baking.

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations (monochrome), hand-drawn illustrations ; 17 × 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Tavros] : TAVROS Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book is about bread, which is about life, which is about death. Eight perspectives on bread are gathered here from across the Mediterranean Basin as well as the Black Sea. Taking the form of anthropological (auto)ethnography, short stories, political treatises, fairy tales, and an eulogy, this collection of texts reflects the many meanings of its core subject. Bread gathers, bread nourishes; it plays a central role in celebrations of life and rituals of mourning. Bread offers a site for collecting practices of self-reliance and camaraderie, as well as histories of migration and struggles over land. Combining vernacular wisdom, academic expertise, and embodied forms of intelligence, Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead comprises a timely and nourishing collection of perspectives. Forgoing a placeless view, the publication centres localised knowledges of baking as a means of survival and community-making, a living heritage carried by each of us from wherever, uprooted, we came. -- publisher

Notes:

Softcover book with monochrome photos and hand-drawn illustrations.

"This publication is funded by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Loulis Found Ingredients."

ISBN:

9786188769700

6188769701

OCLC:

1564069031

Publisher Number:

90104277562