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...Gaza, and merchants are starving for business. True, self-rule there has brought some degree of pride. "It's good to see the Israelis gone and the Palestinian policemen in the streets," says jeweler Nael Haddad. "Still," he adds, "that doesn't buy you a loaf of bread...
Seventeenth century Spain was notorious for the parsimony of its common diet: bread, beans, onions, a scrap of lamb or fish sometimes, and garlic, garlic, garlic. It was to French or Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing...
Some residents describe the atmosphere of the Dudley Co-op as being as warm as the fresh bread they bake daily...
...equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work song, but no one else joins in. Perhaps they're too busy looking forward to their lunch of bread smeared with jam. Perhaps...
...husband Grigory Evdokimov is similarly nostalgic for the past and angry about the present. "Factories worked; more was being built," he recalls. "I can't say we always had bread, but we lived. We all had ideals, and we all worked toward some purpose." Now, "the only thing people work for is money," he notes. "Something has been lost." Like most of his era, Evdokimov has little to say of Stalin and the terror. "Maybe some of the parents of my friends were dealt a blow by Stalin," he says. "But it was rude to talk about...