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"All at once she smelled something burning and found it
was her bread... Her neighbor saw her and asked her what the
trouble was... Her neighbor said: 'Never mind, I have some nice
biscuits and will give you enough for your breakfast, and tonight
I will show you how to mix bread. No doubt you forgot the yeast.'"

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"Women who shared neither culture nor language forged multicultural
communities, helping one another give birth, feed threshing
crews, nurse the sick, and survive on scarce resources."
Elizabeth Jameson,
University of Calgary
 


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