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“It is also possible that the biblical story of loaves and fishes served as metaphor for a population fully familiar with the steps of making sourdough bread. Sourdough culture, like religious belief, can be expanded and shared indefinitely.”
― Eric Pallant, Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

“Many of the scientists who contributed to the emerging discipline of microbiology were from France, the country so renowned for its extraordinary diversity of cheese, wine, and bread—all products of microbial fermentation.”
― Eric Pallant, Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

“Jesus selected two foods that matured, flourished, and were transformed, as if by empyrean power. The transfiguration of grape juice into wine, dough into bread, and that wine and bread into the blood and body of Christ was all the work of the divine. By specifying that his body was bread, Jesus implied the following: consume me and you, too, can be as eternal as your sourdough starters. And like your starters, pass me from one kitchen to the next, share me with a friend, and they, too, can have immortality that is warm, comfortingly aromatic, and satiating.”
― Eric Pallant, Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

“Maybe baking was providing an affirmation of life, a hope for rebirth after weeks and months of numbing isolation.”
― Eric Pallant, Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers