The Egyptian government has long subsidized bread as part of its program of social support. Most Egyptians eat this subsidized bread, known as baladi bread, daily. We examine everyday practices of handling baladi bread as casual care. Scholarship on care has drawn attention to the multiple ways in which care can be practiced around a range of human and nonhuman others. Casual care signals a mode of practice that constitutes care but that is not necessarily performed by its practitioners as such. It is intentional but also habitual, deliberate but also perfunctory. We look at people’s casual care for baladi bread during the understudied phase of conveyance, between the moment of purchase and arrival at home. Practices of handling and selecting bread help produce the quality of the baladi bread that people are eating. While past bread riots have underscored the political salience of this bread, casual care elucidates what goes on between these moments of crisis, revealing the role of people’s day-to-day actions in producing a general level of satisfaction with subsidized bread. This analysis draws theoretical attention to how care is practiced, opening up space for thinking about kinds of care that are not all that careful in their enactment.

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护理和运输：在开罗购买巴拉迪面包

埃及政府长期以来一直在补贴面包，这是其社会支持计划的一部分。大多数埃及人每天都吃这种有补贴的面包，即巴拉迪面包。我们研究了处理巴拉迪面包作为日常护理的日常做法。关于护理的奖学金吸引了人们关注可以围绕多种人类和非人类他人实践护理的多种方式。休闲护理是一种构成护理的实践模式，但不一定由其从业者执行。它是有意的，也是习惯性的，故意的，但也是敷衍的。我们将研究人们在购买之前和到达家之间的运输过程中，人们对Baladi面包的休闲照顾。处理和选择面包的实践有助于提高人们正在食用的巴拉迪面包的质量。尽管过去的面包骚乱突显了这种面包的政治意义，但临时护理阐明了危机时刻之间发生的事情，从而揭示了人们日常行动在使受补贴的面包产生总体满意度方面的作用。这种分析引起了理论上对如何实施护理的关注，从而为思考在制定时并非十分谨慎的各种护理开辟了空间。