Bread is the quintessential food.

I should say real, Sourdough Bread (or, naturally leavened) is the quintessential food. It’s simple, just four ingredients, yet at the same time, it is immensely complex.

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You see, the four ingredients in bread – flour, water, salt, and yeast – are either not digestible or don’t have enough nutrient value to sustain human life. But add the millions of symbiotic bacteria and yeast and they’ll transform the other three ingredients into one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. There are more bioavailable minerals and vitamins in a loaf of real bread than can be found in the grains before the fermentation process.

The making of bread used to be considered magic. It definitely changed the course of human history until someone figured out how to slice it…

I consider it one of the most beautiful examples of the power of community – that the sum can far exceed the individual parts.

I know many people are hurting, some dying, through this crisis. More will be sick, and there is the desperately horrific truth that more will die.

But we have a chance to be better than the sum of our parts through the power of community and the humanity we can show each other.

Many stories of people reaching out to others have popped across my feed, here’s to hoping we all see more.

Take care of yourselves!

Then take care of others!