The document describes the life cycles of different types of bread. It discusses a rye bread loaf that was baked in the morning and eventually thrown out at the end of the day. It also describes a flat bread that was baked and then mostly eaten by children that evening. Finally, the document discusses how bread can serve as a witness to the tastes, values, and life standards of different societies.

1. Cristina Mihai
Gabriele Zuti Giachetti

2. • I am a rye bread loaf.
• I have been baked early in the
morning on a huge tray with a
dozen of other breads like me, we’re all rye.
 After we’re all grown, ripe we’re taken in a basket, next to
other loafs wheat, sesame, white, olive bread, and many
other I couldn’t have imagined.
 During the day many of us are taken, cut transformed into
sandwiches and sold.
 At the end of the day there are still some of us left. Before
all the lights are put off we’re thrown in the garbage bin.

3.  I am a flat bread made from simple grain.
 I was baked in the morning, really early
with three more flat breads in a earth made oven.
 The woman who took me out of the fire last and left me
to cool down, put us in a dark place.
 The firs two were taken out that very evening.
 Only the following evening I was put on the table, with
the other last bread. About ten people, mostly
kids, gathered around the table looking at us like there’s
no tomorrow. In a few moments there was nothing left
of us, not even the crumbles.

4.  Witness of taste evolution in a society
 In the western society the variety of types of bread
expresses a preoccupation for taste, up to esthetics of
how it looks.
 In other societies (some of the Asian, African, South-
American ones) bread keeps its basic receipt. Being a
scarce aliment the “improvement”, “exploration” of
possible developments is pretty much left to the
societies where the original receipt is seen as exotic.

5.  Witnesses values and life standard of a society
 In an consummators society such as ours, bread has
pretty much lost the value of a basic aliment (loosing
also on the nutritional level) and it rather satisfies the
need of diversity that expands to most of the aspects of
our modern life.
 In other societies, mentioned in previous slide, where
bread is still a basic aliment is still valued and seen as a
as such, satisfying a basic need.
 While bread could be considered a witness of the needs
as per Maslow’s pyramid, we can also ask ourselves if
prosperity also reflects an enrichment or a futility of the
basic values.