On the dining room tables, loaves of bread are presented in large brass dishes. A staple food since Neolithic times, bread has been an integral part of human history, almost defining it. Didn't Ulysses describe mankind as ‘bread eaters’, unlike the Cyclops? Paradoxically, bread is a marker of prosperity as well as simplicity and humility. It is a wealth that is shared, a common good.

These are special: they have all been made from a single sourdough, created in Athens. To be born, it needs flour, water and the bacteria in the air; each sourdough is absolutely unique, because it bears the mark of a specific time and place. The breads on the tables are therefore authentic ‘Greek breads’.

Bread, brass dishes