Do you remember the days when the milkman stopped at your house regularly to deliver fresh milk? If you’re reading this blog, your answer is likely, “no.” But that doesn’t mean that you can’t appreciate the idea of home delivered milk and what a wonderfully simple and heartening system it was.

A company in Des Moines has taken this idea one step further, one step more wholesome, one step more delicious. Instead of milk, they deliver bread to your door. Yes, bread, sustainer of life and motivator of souls.

The Daily Loaf offers a wide variety of breads, and they deliver the loafs directly to your door. The catch? You must live in Des Moines. I admit that I have weighed the pros and cons of living in Iowa many times. This realization that I could have fresh bread delivered to my house falls neatly into the pro category.

If I do indeed move to Iowa, I await excitedly the moment when an apparition of  ”Shoeless” Joe Jackson walks up to me in a corn field and asks if he is in heaven. I will break off a piece of herb batard, hand it to him, and say, “This is Iowa. But yes, Joe. It is also heaven.”