Chad Robertson
what does it take?
a personality type.
a calm neurotic
like chad robertson
tall and rangey
to be a baker
waking before daybreak, working physically hard before daybreak,
it's a push to the last loaf,
here you stand before the oven, to stand underground and bake bagels,
carry the flour back centuries to
your ancestors, with
poppy seed, sesame, and flax.
It’s a blue planet,
Powered by calories derived from bread,
The technological revolutions,
In our Modernity,
There was bread,
Religious warfare,
And the bread as ritual.
An evolution,
Of bread and of society,
From bourgeosie to poverty,
In every neighborhood and shtetl.
it's a push to the last loaf,
here you stand before the oven, to stand underground and bake bagels,
carry the flour back centuries to
your ancestors, with
poppy seed, sesame, and flax.
It’s a blue planet,
Powered by calories derived from bread,
The technological revolutions,
In our Modernity,
There was bread,
Religious warfare,
And the bread as ritual.
An evolution,
Of bread and of society,
From bourgeosie to poverty,
In every neighborhood and shtetl.
Beautiful Ar. The last 3 stanzas are especially powerful.
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