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Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses dealing with food, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. His writing has appeared in Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Salon, and Gastronomica. Along with The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story, he is the author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf and Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. In the 1990s, he worked on the U.S.-Mexico border as an activist and educator. He is a founding member of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition in Washington State.

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	The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story 4.43 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf 3.63 avg rating — 831 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atomic Bread Baking at Home by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (Goodreads Author), Timothy McKean (Narrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“men sat around discussing the ethics of eating and farming, while women did all the work.23”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

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“The story of bread is the story of how social structures shape what we eat, and how what we eat shapes social structures.”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

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“There was dignity, he knew, in the simple act of continuing to live in a world where you were not meant to survive.”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

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