Cake Zine’s sixth issue, Daily Bread, explores how bread impacts our lives through ritual, religion, and routine. It’s one hundred and six pages of essays, recipes, art, and more including:

- A clandestine account of the gluten schism that tore apart an upstate New York Catholic church by Jordan Kisner
- A profile of the elusive 2010s performance artist Bread Face by Nicolaia Rips
- An reflection on cutting off the crusts as a sign of class and love, and the rise of Uncrustables® by Mychal Denzel Smith
- Dueling odes to the art of loafing and the New York hustle culture of “getting this bread” by Adam Spiegelman and Sahir Ahmed
- An interview with Nisreen Shehada on baking for survival in the Rafah refugee camp by Jun Chou, with Nisreen’s recipe for za’atar focaccia
- An essay on craving domesticity, Buddhist enlightenment, and the trope of the tradwife by Larissa Pham
- A deconstruction of the phrase “bread and roses” by Hermione Hoby
- A dispatch from a West London convent’s eucharist production line by Anna Cafolla
- A frank exploration of the physical toll baking takes on professional bakers by Dayna Evans
- Recipes for cinnamon raisin swirl qiang bing, pão de queijo pancakes, giant thenga-cardamom bun, and sweetbreads sandwich by Kayla Wong, João Campos, Shilpa Uskokovic, and See You Soon
Plus an oral history of the 60+ year-old radical theater Bread and Puppet, a step-by-step guide for tying shibari challah, the origin and cult-status of the bread clip, baking aboard a 100-year-old working sailboat, and more.

Printed with a pebbled leather-effect cover—no cows harmed.