Mystical and social value of the work while creating the bread. This paper is a part
of author’s wider consideration problems of ties between nature, crafting and society.
The work shows effects and results of collapse of traditional religious and magic
values concerning agricultural products, especially the bread. The paper deals an integrated
approach connecting food production of peasant farms with culture and
everyday life of particular categories of country people. Today however, especially
under the influence of globalization processes, there is a strong need for an integration
glance and perception of the issue, mainly appropriate to the past role of traditional
“strong values”. The special painful problem is a “deep trauma” of contemporary
transformation of peasant communities. A strong indicator of this is number
of committed suicides within some categories of peasant.