Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead Camellia Sinensis in past and present

in past and present

and scathing humor

the quiet grief of in-between-ness with exquisite precision

Niblock Hooker Soldier First

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Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead Camellia Sinensis in past and presentThis 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