Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead. What are our memories if

What are our memories if not the mirrors we gaze into…In Hindu mythology

This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand

the abject and the unknown

drawing their materials from buried memories

The accompanying texts are provided by Giuliano Scabia

Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead. What are our memories ifThis 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 a 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