He records Solzhenitsyn sleeping with bread under his pillow for four years when he came out of the Gulag. Many of the cultures that he discusses not only had many different kinds of bread but literally scores of different names for them. Now we have a wide range of excellent bread to choose from and realise that good-quality bread is one of the things in life really worth having. It was really vital that bread was both available and good. Our Daily Bread: A meditation on the cultural and symbolic significance of bread throughout historyPredrag MatvejevicIstros Books £10.99(978-1-912545-09-4)Church Times Bookshop £9.90

Source: The North Africa Journal March 31, 2021 23:03 UTC