Cuando el pan, volvió a ser pan. Nostalgia y afectividad en el consumo del ‘pan de masa madre’

Throughout the history of bread, up until the mid-20th century, it has played a significant role in people's lives. It is not until the last third of the past century that it seems to begin losing the symbolic power it once had. For the past decade, sourdough bread has come to occupy that centrality, thanks to the creation of new spaces in cities where its production has reclaimed the artisanal, resulting in a great diversity of breads with new and rich symbolic meanings. In this article, I examine bread consumption through the experience of Noemí, who stopped consuming bread because it ceased to be an important food in her life, until she encountered 'sourdough bread' and reintroduced it into her diet through affective mechanisms and nostalgia.