Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow

Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow

The other day I listened to a short book about pepper and today it's a book about bread. And I've gone from a funny, conversational writer/interviewer to a formal, slightly pretentious author. Can you tell which I liked better? My boss recommended I read Bread and handed me his copy. He said it changed that way he looked at bread and would definitely change his next Communion sermon, so I was expecting it to be interesting and at just over 100 pages, a quick read. I was disappointed. While the author clearly loved bread and has a lot to say, it was too philosophical for me. When he ventured into history and social status I found it interesting and even the religion up to a point, most of the time I found myself marveling about just how much this guy could contemplate bread. This counts as 3 pts in the COYER Treasure Hunt (a book with One Word Title)....
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