Learning to bake teaches the baker just how much is beyond his control. To know bread, he argues, one must work with it. Robert Pisor, Founder of Stone House Bread, Leland, Michiganįor Shershow, bread is everywhere because it is a miracle, and miraculous because it is everywhere.
Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future CoexistenceĪnyone who spends serious time weighing a name for his starter has crossed over to the other side, but Shershow is comfortable there, too, at home with the philosophers and poets of bread. In prose as crystal as bread isn't, and as sensual as it is, Shershow reveals how deeply political and philosophical issues concerning hospitality (aka the breaking of bread) are fueled and interrupted by bread itself.
Scott Shershow is a writer of beautiful sentences that convey the ambiguity of a thing we often take as a bland lump to be smeared with fats and oils.
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