Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt Barnes Jessica
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt Barnes Jessica Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the…
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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt Barnes Jessica
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings.
Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread.
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