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Bread As Currency

Chronicle Books

Remember when people called money "bread"? 

Author/baker Malin Elmlid might singlehandedly revive the use of the term. 

Because she's been trading her loaves of homemade bread--actual baked bread--for goods, and services, and even stories. 

She tells about the process in her book The Bread Exchange.

She visits our Exchange to tell us about it.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.