Why do you have fifty bags of flour under our bed?”

Chapter 24 — E-14, R-07, B-22

The dam broke, and the whole story came pouring out of Jacqueline all at once, the words tumbling over one another in her relief and her enthusiasm.

“E-14 is an ancient einkorn flour, from a wonderful little historic mill up in Vermont,” she said, her whole face lighting up in a way I had never once seen it light up over anything in six months.

“R-07 is my heirloom rye sourdough starter, dried down, Brenda, I have been keeping that same starter alive and feeding it for over twenty years, it is older than your marriage.