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Stephanie Bernheim “Not By Bread Alone” Photocollage, script
Most of my work has been involved in pushing materials beyond their intended use. As a counterpoint to this terrible time of pandemic, here is a story of masquerading material. For relief from daily meal cooking during my covid quarantine, I picked up a take-out meal. When I got home and unpacked the dinner, I noticed there was dough tightly wrapped in saran. I emailed the chef, first, to compliment him on delicious gumbo, and second, to ask for instructions on how to bake the bread, and what he suggested as an alternative to using a metal loaf pan -since I did not have one in my sparsely equipped kitchen. “Might I distribute small pieces of the dough in a muffin tin?” The chef responded by sending many bread recipes and said, “it depends on what type of bread you want to make.” I answered, " I need to make the type you enclosed in our shopping bag." The chef replied, "That was mashed potatoes. Just heat in its plastic wrap in the microwave."
