BreadObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in the process of becoming something else: flour to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of breaking bread together to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict sometimes