Friday Bread Basket 5/20/22

Lighting Round Edition

Lance St. Laurent @LanceStLaurent

Orson was a big boy who demanded a big boy’s breakfast

Welcome to the Wordloaf Friday Bread Basket, a weekly roundup of links and items relating to bread, baking, and grain. When I first began doing the Friday Bread Basket, I worried that there would be weeks for which I wouldn’t have enough items to share. As it turns out, the opposite is true—I regularly have way more items than I can get to, especially when I want to give each of them proper context. So I usually just pick the top two or three items I want you to see, even if other ones are interesting too.

This week, in order to catch up with the backlog a bit, I’m going to do a ‘lightning round’, where I share more things, but with zero context other than a headline.

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Gwendolyn Brooks on ‘the breadier love’

Helen Charman @helen_charman

from Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks’ newly-reissued 1953 novel— ‘the breadier love’, the work of leaning upon

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Roxane Gay visits Poilâne Bakery

Flour. Water. Salt. Yeast.

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Nigella Lawson (👋) and others on the crisp (potato chip) sandwich

(Extra context: I’ve been eating potato chip and mustard sandwiches since childhood.)

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COSAS DE NORTEÑOS @CosasDeNortenos

LE TOMÉ UNA FOTO AL ECLIPSE LUNAR ANOCHE

(Translation: “I TOOK A PHOTO OF THE LUNAR ECLIPSE LAST NIGHT”)

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John Carruthers on homemade pizza

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Chaat in the Bay Area (& eye candy for everyone)

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Nate Wolff @ProffWolff

Everything everywhere all at once

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That’s it for this week’s bread basket. I’ll see you all next week, have a peaceful weekend.

—Andrew