OK, not alone. Warm, toasted even, with melting butter and maybe a little honey or jelly or peanut butter.
My favorite bread is homemade bread, and that is what today honors - the bakers who bake bread by hand. It's homemade bread day.
Jams and jellies on warm bread is a treat worthy of dessert in the finest restaurant.
If your universe of bread stretches beyond the good old reliable white bread with tasty crust - there are varieties of wheat and multi-grain breads that not only taste great, but are good for you as well.
Lately, some of the best days at work happen on those mornings when I walk in the doors to be greeted by the transporting smell of hot buttered toast. There isn't a smell on earth any better than that.
Yeast has been rising for thousands of years to bake bread. It's estimated that the first breads popped out of ovens not long after Adam and Eve had to leave the garden and were forced to buy their bread at the Panera on corner.
Of course, sometimes there isn't time to spend baking our own bread. Thankfully, there are many good brands of bread to buy at the store that stand up well to anything you might throw at it for a sandwich or are able to provide the comfort you need when French Toast weather comes to town.
It's always seemed to me that we should have higher goals in mind than comparing all of mankind's inventions to sliced bread, but if we were comparing it to hot, fresh from the oven, homemade, crafted bread?
Then there is nothing better. Enjoy a slice today.
Tomorrow I'll write about my trip to Lambeau, I promise.
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