Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt, by Jessica Barnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pages. $104.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan, by José Ciro Martínez. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 368 pages. $120 cloth, $30 paper