4 a.m. arrives
new-age bakers flip the switch
machines never tireIs something missing
wheat yeast water salt all there
ah the human touchAutomation takes
gives idleness new meaning
empty incentivesEastward the Levant
its microorganisms
no longer give riseBreak it and share it
bread binds cultures together
without it we starve
Anonymole - apocryphal agitators 
What a beautiful sentiment at the end. It seems to me, however, that bread has been made ‘evil.’ All the carbs, etc. People no longer seem to gather and break bread…
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Seriously though, this was excellent and reminded me of the time I worked in a donut shop as a decorator, waiting for the baker to finish making them. He LOVED his job, and sang to the pastry mixer😊
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There’s a chatty youtuber “Proof” I think he calls himself, who waxes on about his auspicious occupation of feeding this people the fruits of his exhaustive labor: bread. Sourdough started varieties of all sorts, some many would think impossible. Croissants made from tart and fragrant starter? Those and more.
The miller, the baker, the candle…. Anyway, noble occupations the likes of which I will always envy but never covet. Oy, the hours!
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I remember the sourdough starter obsession from the beginning of the pandemic. I managed to avoid it—too busy looking for toilet paper 😉
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This fellow is a full-on artisanal baker, a thousand loaves a day, type.
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That’s a lot of dough!
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D’oh! I toast your humour!
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Bread as community? That’s a large topic.
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Why is being a bread baker such a great job? You get to loaf around all day🤣
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You’re on a roll!
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OW! We need to get some upper crust humor going here.
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I agree, no more of these half-baked puns.
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Gettin’ kinda crumby, huh?
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