Bread of Life (3)

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The near-impossibility of buying good quality, nice-tasting bread is one of the most frustrating things about food-shopping today. The white stuff tastes like plastic and if we try to be healthy and opt for wholemeal, we are rewarded with the taste of sawdust! Across the Western world, in the year 2008, in our advanced society, we cannot buy proper bread! In fact, the quality of our bread is in inverse proportion to the wealth of our society. When we travel to poorer parts of the world, we often find that we can eat beautiful fresh-baked bread, made by poor women in shacks, or mud-huts, over open fires. Yet, in the West, the more prosperous we are, the worse the quality of our bread becomes----plastic food for a plastic century. That golden wheat-field, which once inspired harvest celebrations like Lughnasadh throughout the world, now inspires only apathy. To borrow a phrase from Mircea Elliade, the sacred has become the profane. The Bread of Life has given way to the Bread of Plastic, a potent representation of what has gone terribly wrong in the way we produce and consume food.

Blessings on your table!