Daily Bread

Cake Zine’s sixth issue, Daily Bread, explores how bread impacts our lives through ritual, religion, and routine. It’s one hundred and six pages of essays, recipes, art, and more including:• A clandestine account of the gluten schism that tore apart an upstate church by Jordan Kisner• A profile of the the elusive 2010s performance artist Bread Face by Nicolaia Rips• An reflection on cutting off crusts as a sign of class-privilege and love, and the rise of Uncrustables by MychalDenzel Smith• Dueling odes to the art of loafing and the New York hustle culture of “getting this bread” by Adam Spiegelmanand Sahir Ahmed• An interview with Nisreen Shehada on baking for survival in the Rafah refugee camp by Jun Chou, with Nisreen’srecipe for za’atar focaccia• An essay on craving domesticity, Buddhist enlightenment, and the trope of the tradwife by Larissa Pham• A deconstruction of the phrase “bread and roses” by Hermione Holby• A dispatch from a West London convent’s eucharist production line by Anna Cafolla• A frank exploration of the physical toll baking takes on professional bakers by Dayna Evans• Recipes for cinnamon raisin swirl qiang bing, pão de queijo pancakes, giant thenga-cardamom bun, andsweetbreads sandwich by Kayla Wong, João Campos, Shilpa Uskokovic, and See You Soon• Plus an oral history of the 60+ year-old radical theater Bread and Puppet, a step-by-step guide for tying shibarichallah, the origin and cult-status of the bread clip, baking aboard a 100-year-old active sailboat, and more.

Cake Zine’s sixth issue, Daily Bread, explores how bread impacts our lives through ritual, religion, and routine. It’s one hundred and six pages of essays, recipes, art, and more including:• A clandestine account of the gluten schism that tore apart an upstate church by Jordan Kisner• A profile of the the elusive 2010s performance artist Bread Face by Nicolaia Rips• An reflection on cutting off crusts as a sign of class-privilege and love, and the rise of Uncrustables by MychalDenzel Smith• Dueling odes to the art of loafing and the New York hustle culture of “getting this bread” by Adam Spiegelmanand Sahir Ahmed• An interview with Nisreen Shehada on baking for survival in the Rafah refugee camp by Jun Chou, with Nisreen’srecipe for za’atar focaccia• An essay on craving domesticity, Buddhist enlightenment, and the trope of the tradwife by Larissa Pham• A deconstruction of the phrase “bread and roses” by Hermione Holby• A dispatch from a West London convent’s eucharist production line by Anna Cafolla• A frank exploration of the physical toll baking takes on professional bakers by Dayna Evans• Recipes for cinnamon raisin swirl qiang bing, pão de queijo pancakes, giant thenga-cardamom bun, andsweetbreads sandwich by Kayla Wong, João Campos, Shilpa Uskokovic, and See You Soon• Plus an oral history of the 60+ year-old radical theater Bread and Puppet, a step-by-step guide for tying shibarichallah, the origin and cult-status of the bread clip, baking aboard a 100-year-old active sailboat, and more.