At the heart of the table

The restaurant bread basket has a long and layered back story:  I’ll oversimplify here and collapse the timeline on this tip of the iceberg take. There is a place where the medieval trencher, the British (idea of) ploughmans lunch, charcuterie boards, tartines, smorrebrod, universal flatbreads of the grain diaspora, crostini, focaccia, bread sticks, garlic knots, dinner rolls…  and the modern artisan bread movement converge.