'Anyone 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. All other bread books are now toast.' - Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence 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. 'Anyone 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.' 'Robert Pisor, Founder of Stone House Bread, Leland, Michigan'' But bread also commonly figures in social conflict - sometimes literally, in the bread riots that punctuate European history, and sometimes figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic. All other bread books are now toast.' 'Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence' Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of breaking bread together to the mysteries of the Eucharist. 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 Cutler Shershow edit data Combine Editions Scott Cutler Shershow’s books Average rating: 3.

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