Their celebration ran into my Sabbath. The Monarch left by a secret route. This is the Bread of Life. According to the Joy of Cooking, bread yeast has been helping us stay nourished for the past 6,000 years. The Egyptians were making sourdough bread when Moses took the Israelites into the desert.
Yeast is a simple, one-celled plant.
It feeds on sugar and water, and gives off carbon dioxide and alcohol as it grows. According to Joy of Cooking, there are 200 billion yeast cells in an ounce of yeast. In bread, carbon dioxide makes the bubbles in the dough and the alcohol evaporates in the oven. In beer or wine, the alcohol preserves the liquid and the carbon dioxide adds a sparkle unless we let it escape into the air. In either case, it is the yeast that gives life to the food that sustains us and focuses our celebration.