On daily bread.
Eating is passive. You don’t want to be passive. First step - figure out what food is. Once you know what food is, hopefully you will refuse to eat garbage.
In case of bread - flour, water, salt, yeast. /1
Eating is passive. You don’t want to be passive. First step - figure out what food is. Once you know what food is, hopefully you will refuse to eat garbage.
In case of bread - flour, water, salt, yeast. /1
My (maternal) Grandmother ate bread with each meal, a small half piece of a slice. Upon seeing her eat bread with pasta my father would lament “Mom, you are eating bread with bread”. Grandmother remained unperturbed. /2
For Russians and Ukrainians bread is holy. You don’t throw it on the ground. Bread is the staff of life (Russian literal head of everything). /3 
The second action you want to take is understand food in context. If you relied on “People over there eat bread all the time”, even if you know what bread is, you’d still miss large parts of eating culture. /4
We bought freshly baked bread daily. Half of what we bought was white bread, half - grey or black bread. Dark, hard as brick rye breads were preferable to white wheat breads according to my grandmother. White wheat bread was considered festive, bread of the rich. /5
Festive eating every day leads to illness. I say if you eat like it’s Christmas every day, you will get sick. Look into it.
Dig into history and find out that most of Europe survived on rye breads, often sour rye breads. /6
Dig into history and find out that most of Europe survived on rye breads, often sour rye breads. /6
One of the most favorite picnic meals in Western Ukraine - black bread, butter, salt, a sprig or green onion eaten straight or dipped into salt with each bite, and a hard boiled egg. These simple ways of eating don’t make it into cookbooks. /7
Most American grocery stores do not sell bread. Your best bet is private bakeries in large cities, ethnic grocery shops, or bake your own.
It is below dignity to eat what is sold under the guise of bread in America. /8
It is below dignity to eat what is sold under the guise of bread in America. /8
Now go back and have a look at the image above. You will now see it’s not fluffy white bread.
Start extracting nuanced information from everywhere - pictures, art, diaries, fiction. It may not be true or full picture, but it will give you food for thought. /9
Start extracting nuanced information from everywhere - pictures, art, diaries, fiction. It may not be true or full picture, but it will give you food for thought. /9
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