Nowadays it is often said that it is much more important to provide food than to provide culture. On the first glance this claim sounds quite obvious. But only on the first glance.
The core of each human identity is the brain. The brain needs energy to work, most often provided by food. Food is the tool to keep the brain running. At the same time this brain is the tool to plan how to get food. And to get food is only one task in the overall task schedule, mainly focused on the pure principle of survival. Survival is a very individual task, without any rules of how to achieve this.
This is the moment culture becomes important. Culture regulates and supports the human interaction and defines the context the individual is acting in. Bread keeps the individual running, culture keeps the system running. Without culture the system will collapse and most of the individuals might struggle to find bread.