Lexie Smith on falling hard for bread and biting into its potential in her online archive Bread on Earth

The baker, writer and “sometimes artist” took to the New York Nicer Tuesdays stage to share the story behind the development of Bread on Earth: a project, archive and umbrella for the research and experiments that she undertakes to better understand bread. By offering a different view on the magic of the mundane carb, Lexie shows us how the simple foodstuff can be an agent of personal and cultural identity – a gateway to bigger conversations about what it means to be human.