To look BREAD in a new way.
brainstorming
Religious / Cultural / Social / Monetary / Nutritional /
Medicinal //Comfort / Homely /Hope/
research
Smell of a loaf of bread in the oven = comfort, homely, (emotional value), these aspects can help to sell a house!
Egyptian bread is heavily subsidised so that the poor can buy it very cheaply. It is politically valuable. Put the price up = social
unrest / keep the price down = costs the government billions (financial)
Pieces of toast with images of Jesus / Mary have been sold for a high price (religious value)
Value of Ancient Egyptian loaf of bread (artefact) http://www.prosphora.org/page38.html both then and now!
Under a coat a French stick loaf of bread could look like a shotgun and be used to hold up a bank!
During World War II in Holland there was the 'Hunger Winter' when there was no bread. The Swedes air-dropped loaves of
white bread = Operation Manna.
Moldy bread on wounds = penicillin!
Bread soaks liquids and oil up.
Bread absorbs smells, salt, burnt taste (cabbage, soup, rice)
selected values
Brown, collaboration between cultures, globalization,
hope,peace, freedom, strength, innovation, democratic.