Breaking Bread by David Wright

Breaking Bread by David Wright

In “Ode to Bread”, Pablo Neruda describes how flour, water and fire combine to create a sort of magic that is both poetic and prosaic, simple and profound. Our daily bread should be “hallowed and sacred, because it will have been won by the longest and costliest of human struggles”. The contemporary significance of its production process, as well as the value and appreciation of the end product, is the theme of David Wright’s important and wide-…