The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loafs seem,so perfumes, as home-made bread used to be before the war. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight. – M. F. K. Fisher