Contemplations on the nature of bread.

Bread is pretty basic stuff. Some people love it and some people, like me, only react to it when it is particularly good or bad. There is more of the particularly bad variety in America. We were more than a little tired by the time we reached our condo, Valley Isle, at Kahana beach. We had had the ridiculously long delay in Detroit and then a shambolic shuttle ride from Newyark to JFK. We stayed the night in a bland airport hotel. Why do all these sorts of hotels serve breakfast on paper plates with plastic utensils? And why do they call these aforesaid utensils silverware?

Anyway, by the time we got to Hawaii with the time difference we had been awake for a very long time. When we reached our condo it was about eight o'clock Hawaiin time but by our body clocks it was more like three o'clock in the morning.

We staggered across the road to buy some stuff for breakfast at an overpriced grocery store. I spent $50.00 on some bacon, eggs and bread. A stick of butter cost $4.00! And now on to the topic of this blog entry, the quality of bread.

 On the left hand side you see the Loves bread I bought that night and on the right hand side you see the preferable Dave's Killer bread I bought at Safeways the next day. What is the difference between these two breads? Firstly $2.00. The Dave's bread was $7.00 and the Loves was $5.00.

And their stories are also vastly different.  Loves was apparently started off in 1851 by Robert Love during the long and fruitful reign of  King Kamehameha. Dave's killer bread is a more recent invention. After 15 years in prison, Dave Dahl found a way to reinvent himself in the family bakery. Pity while he was reinventing himself he didn't end up making better bread. And an even greater pity is that in the more than hundred years Loves bread didn't evolve into something better. 

Dave's won for me because it is made with organic ingredients and because I'm always a pushover for a bad boy makes good story. But as far as I'm concerned Americans should stick to bagels. They do them better.