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Digger Bread
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"Digger Bread
(Made With Love)
Digger Bread was immediately recognizable for the shape of the one- and two-pound
coffee cans that the Diggers used to bake it. I interviewed Walt Reynolds who introduced
baking to the Diggers. (Some day, I hope to transcribe that interview and put it here.)
Walt told me the story of Grey, the Mad Baker, a metaphor of the sixties. The guy flipped
out with his day job in a suburban mall bakery, and one morning the police found him
naked, throwing dollar bills and flour into the air by his mixing bowls. He only wanted to
make bread, but the business angle was too much to handle. He called Walt and told him to
take away the equipment. Walt had come to the Haight and hooked up with the All Saints
Church group of Diggers. He used the church kitchen to teach the Diggers how to bake whole
wheat bread. Fifteen years later, when I was doing non-violence trainings, we got
a hold of
the church for one of our sessions in preparation for occupying the Livermore Labs. I went
into the kitchen and there were those beautiful ovens that the Diggers had used.
Walt told me that the Diggers were responsible for the advent of whole wheat into the
hippie/counterculture. This is a remarkable assertion. I would like to know more about
this hypothesis. If anyone has done any research along these lines, "sign in
please." The book Appetite for Change: how the counterculture took on the food
industry , by Warren J. Belasco, certainly attributes an important role to the Diggers.
However, I don't know if anyone has specifically shown that digger bread was the first
instance of using whole wheat bread (and actually proselytizing for it as demonstrated in
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