Sweet Bread
Sweet Bread is a collection of short pieces. It’s for admirers of literature, humor, philosophy, experiments, essays, and tracts all together in one delightful read.
US$9.95
254 pages
literature, humor, philosophy
pocket size, paperback
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Sweet Bread
The Carthaginians continued to bake their cookies and cakes between sunrise and sunset all throughout the Punic Wars. A taste for treats does not diminish during fighting; indeed, it boosts morale to eat sweet breads upon falling back from battle. BCE bakers prepared not foods but time itself, for with their loaves at each new dawn they ensured the soldier would get into formation, rather than acting hurt, running off, or other dishonest practices. Bread cheated the orders of the soldier’s own mind, his fear and apathy.
Today owing to their intensive flavors and world surplus of butter bricks and sugar buckets, sweet breads have come to life, as it were, as extended phenotypes of human desire. The demand for sourdough and marble rye is but a thumbnail speck of that of sweets. For and always the flour volume shall be greater than that of sugar-butter, but in the modern age the three are evolutionarily linked as each generation produces new people more adapted to sweets than the one before. Thus it points to a happy future where desire is always comforted.
In the densities of city life, someone need ride her mobility scooter fewer than 50 feet to enter a store selling sweet breads. This saving of electricity will postpone our environmental collapse. Furthermore, spotting her favorite bread on coupon websites will alter her discretionary income. Being open to different kinds is better still, whether leavened, mixed, or fried, with more savings meaning even more comfort.
Sweet breads aren’t only for the solitary. Although the initial expenditure is big, a geek of sorts could do nothing better than to learn to bake sweet breads himself. A savoury party does much to bond a stranger to another, like negatively charged work slacks to one’s legs in winter. The likely result of an evening board game and five types of sweet bread is cramp-inducing sex. Thus life from flour shall arise. Add recipes for yeast and fermentation to the party and every guest will come twice.