How I’ve Learned to Taste the World, on Pennies

Bread can — and does — sustain us, even under the most economically stretched conditions

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It’s 2:15 a.m. and I am humming the tune of “Ederlezi,” approaching the Suada and Olga Bridge toward the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, Bosnia, where I have rented a room. Grbavica had suffered heavy shelling in the 1990s when Sarajevo…