Over spring break, I was honored to introduce 16 middle schoolers from Indianapolis to food anthropology through the lens of bread. They were completing a two-week intensive course on bread, when for two weeks all their other classes were put on hold and they learned about bread through every school subject.

While in Bloomington to tour Muddy Fork Bakery, the students got to stop by the IU Student Building, home to our department of anthropology, where I gave them each a notebook and three samples of bread, and guided them through some anthropological analysis.

I wrote up the script and lesson plan for this workshop for the blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, so if you’d like to learn more about this workshop, read on here!