The Deep History of Women and Bread: Part 2: Bread Magic

My re-blog of the latest post on The Early English Bread Project website

I don’t often re-blog others’ posts but I particularly enjoyed this post, and I think the project about bread in early medieval England is really important.

In the early Middle Ages, the preparation of bread was women’s domain. And as in other forms of cooking, the mere transformation of raw ingredients into food had a mysterious, quasi-magical element — an element that men didn’t quite trust. A number of texts attest to men’s distrust of what women were really doing in […]

The Deep History of Women and Bread: Part 2: Bread Magic