French documentary maker Benjamin Carle set out to make a sandwich from scratch, sowing, growing, catching, baking and—eventually—making a sandwich. The process took him 10 months and included sowing wheat, building a vegetable garden on a Paris rooftop, raising chickens for their eggs and even fishing for tuna.

Benjamin told The Guardian that mass-produced sandwiches are a “symbol of loss of savoir faire, and rampart consumerism.

“The modern world leaves us feeling useless with our hands. We feel a need to do something with them, to get them dirty. It seemed ridiculous to me that I was proud of having planted tomatoes.”

Asked if the sandwich was any good, Benjamin said, “If I’m being honest, the bread was a bit dry but even if it had been disgusting, I’d have found it absolutely delicious.”