LEXIE SMITH
lexie@bread-on.earth




I’m a writer and bread baker. Right now I’m interested in what our cultural artifacts and material lives, especially as they relate to bread, can tell us about the human condition.
 



In 2016 I founded Bread on Earth, a home for research interrogating bread as both a material and an idea. A new site is currently in development and will resurface as a living database of global bread varieties.  

I’m currently writing a book, also called Bread on Earth, which will be published by W.W. Norton in 2027.


Here are some things I’ve worked on:
I wrote about sourdough for the Opinion Section of The New York Times.
I led the development of the public ed. and programming dept. at Sky High Farm.
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 subscribe to my Substack, Pan, Pain, Pao!.