Five Things: A Loaf of Bread Edition

  1. Mom, thank you for teaching me how to bake bread. You introduced me to a pleasure that not everyone knows.
  2. Thank you to the honey bees that made the honey that went into the bread I’m baking. You worked hard and I reaped the benefit.
  3. Thank you to the farmers who grew the wheat that makes my bread.
  4. Lacey, thank you for keeping the pans clean so that I can bake bread.
  5. Thank you to the engineer who designed the machine that makes the dough.

I could go on. My loaf of bread is a team effort involving an interdependent web of thousands and millions (think of the yeast) of individuals.