No writer can match him for pin-sharp specificity in his rapt close-ups of rural life, from the nocturnal scents of the village ("The bread-and-biscuit smell of rotting wood. The piss-and-honey tang of apple trees") to the rank midden of lowland "Turd and Turf" which serves as boneyard and latrine.
The old bakery, Panificio Volpe Giovanni, sells local bread and biscuits.
Young men came with free boxes of mango juice and water to hand out, round bread and biscuits, cheese and dates.
Along with fritters, corn bread and biscuits, the emphasis is on New England items like parkerhouse rolls and a colonial whole grain loaf called anadama bread.
The bakery, with its often-photographed lime green storefront and its rare coal ovens, began producing Italian bread and biscuits in 1920.
Gone are the crackers, fresh bread and biscuits that Tilly's dietician urged us to get to increase her fat intake.
The homemade biscuits were sublime (we agreed with another couple that Adam Simmonds's bread and biscuits are among his most memorable creations) as were the chocolate petits fours on a bed of choc flakes.
You're served bread and butter pickles when you take a table, as well as corn bread and biscuits that would be excellent if they weren't so cold.
Ms. Johanson travels at least three times a week to give talks in schools and colleges throughout Canada but says she also finds time to sew, knit, walk, swim and make bread and biscuits from a sourdough culture she has used for more than 35 years.
What I got was a narrow corridor adorned with a lot of advertising for Fujitsu, a mangy buffet offering bread and biscuits, and a long row of bored businessmen waiting to be blessed by personal appearances from Ruth Davidson, David Davis, Sajid Javid, Phillip Hammond and Damian Green.
There was only bread and biscuits on board and the heat was unbearable.
