LEXIE SMITH
lexie@bread-on.earth

I’m a baker and writer interested in what our cultural artifacts - mostly food and especially bread - tell us about human instincts, biases, and capacity for healing and harm.

In 2016 I founded Bread on Earth, an evolving database of global bread types and a home for research interrogating bread as both a material and an idea.

I write (mostly but not always about the politics, history and culture of food), develop recipes (mostly but not always for bread), teach (that’s right: bread making) and make some art (often dwelling on some of the aforementioned topics).

Here are some examples:

I wrote about sourdough for the Opinion Section of The New York Times.

I made this 11-hour video of myself hand-threshing home-grown emmer.

I wrote about phallic pastries for Cake Zine.

I wrote about soil as archive for Mold Magazine.

I interviewed an icon for Saveur.

I made this installation at Le CRAC 19.

I developed this prompt for the MIT List Center.

There’s more, too, obviously. Email me (), follow me or Bread On Earth on IG, or sign up for the Bread On Earth newsletter.