Jon Frankel

The French used to refer to the king as The Baker. They felt ultimately that their bread came from him, and bread was the most fundamental thing. In Thai, I am told, a greeting is, 'did you eat rice today?'. In the west, for Christians, bread is the body of god! Bread is symbol of resurrection: the grain is bruised (ground) and sacrificed, only to rise again in the oven, transformed into bread.
-Jon Frankel, poet, novelist, The Last Bender (blog)